admin | May 27, 2009
Ken Robison, historian at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton, sends this post concerning next year’s celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Mullan Road. … “We plan to hold the Mullan Conference 21-22 May 2010, probably with a reception Thursday evening the 20th. … We plan to set up [...]
admin | May 27, 2009
“You may think you know Missoula, but you don’t.” A Daily Missoulian writer at this time of year in 1900 toured the underbelly of the city after a late May fire. “You wouldn’t imagine there is an underground Missoula. You can’t imagine filthy little dens where you hardly have room to turn around, which are [...]
admin | May 26, 2009
We’re talking historic dates here. Consult previous post below about May 26, 1863. One year later, President Abraham Lincoln put his John Henry on a bill creating Montana Territory from Idaho Territory. I can’t find anything especially dramatic about the signing, though wouldn’t we all like to have been a fly on the wall of [...]
admin | May 26, 2009
There aren’t many dates more important to Montana history than May 26. Let’s start with 1863… “I found a scad!” “If you have one, I have a hundred!” The evening exchange between Bill Fairweather and Henry Edgar in Alder Gulch, as described by Dorothy Johnson in “The Bloody Bozeman,” launched the richest placer mining strike [...]
admin | May 23, 2009
Before there was the state of Montana, before Montana Territory, there was Montana City. Gold miners from Lawrence set up the camp in the summer of 1858, on the east bank of the South Platte River in Kansas Territory. Six miles away another camp, Auraria or Aurania, popped up. First reference to a place called [...]
admin | May 20, 2009
Historian Bob Swartout, who has spent the past 31 years teaching at Carroll College in Helena, is helping celebrate the school’s 100th anniversary this year by releasing his new book, “Bold Minds and Blessed Hands: The First Century of Montana’s Carroll College.” Years in the making, the new work looks at the school’s rise as [...]
admin | May 20, 2009
Just ran across this report from the 1977 Aber Day kegger, the legendary music/beer fest held through much of the 70s at the now defunct rodeo grounds up Miller Creek. The numbers are remarkable: an estimated 8,000 people and 1,000 kegs. The bands were Tarwater, Bonnie Raitt, Mission Mountain Wood Band and fiddler Doug Kershaw. [...]
admin | May 7, 2009
(click on title to comment) Here’s the list and rationale of Preserve Historic Missoula for its second annual Eleven Most Endangered Places list (see story in Friday’s Missoulian): Preserve Historic Missoula’s Most Endangered Places list has been established to create public awareness of threatened historic resources. These are significant properties facing risks from deterioration, neglect, [...]
admin | May 6, 2009
It’s a nebulous thing, but for my money any list of the top 10 most important men in the development of early Montana has to include Gabriel Prudhomme. Never heard of him? Don’t feel bad.
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