admin | April 30, 2009
(Click on title to comment) One of the items I just finished working on for this Sunday’s Montana History Almanac for the Territory section of the Missoulian talks about Montana’s first organized sluice mining on Gold Creek in May 1862. The Stuart brothers, Granville and James, were involved. So were Jim Minesinger and one Thomas [...]
admin | April 16, 2009
Activities during the commemoration of the 1959 prison riot in Deer Lodge
admin | April 16, 2009
Scenes from the opening hours of the Montana State Prison riot of April 1959
admin | April 13, 2009
Granted, we can take centennials and bicentennials and sesquicentennials and the like too far. Every year there’s a crop of them. But consider 2009. – 400 years ago (1609), within a five-week summer span, Champlain journeyed onto the New York lake that bears his name and Henry Hudson floated into New York harbor, launching a [...]
admin | April 13, 2009
Finally got a chance to look up what the state university system did about the controversy stirred up by UM English professor Sidney Cox’s literary journal, The Frontier, in April 1926 (see lonnnnnng post below). A magazine story three times used a popular phrase that included the colloquialism for a female dog in one story, [...]
admin | April 4, 2009
It wasn’t quite a sex column scandal, but in 1926 a monthly literary magazine published by students of what’s now the University of Montana in Missoula stirred up a hornet’s nest with the use of a popular vulgarity and a lurid description of a boarding house. Here’s a Missoulian report from April 5 of that [...]
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