admin | July 30, 2009
I’ve seen various references to Mark Twain’s visit to Missoula in August 1895, so I took a few minutes to dig up the Missoulian’s coverage of it. There’s no mention of the adventures Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) had on Aug. 6, the final day of the Montana leg of his nationwide tour. After speaking the [...]
admin | July 29, 2009
As Oglala Sioux war chief Red Cloud watched from a distance, U.S. soldiers packed up and left Fort C.F. Smith, beginning the abandonment of military posts along the Bozeman Trail. Early the next day, Red Cloud and his warriors swooped down on the fort and burned it in celebration. For two years they’d resisted construction [...]
admin | July 28, 2009
Will Moss’s story in Sunday’s Ravalli Republic and Missoulian told of the end of the 2009 Chief Joseph Trail Ride at the Big Hole National Battlefield on Sunday. Today marks the anniversary of a notable Saturday night in the flight of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce. Anybody out there have any Fort Fizzle anecdotes [...]
admin | July 26, 2009
The Montana History Almanac in the July 26 Sunday Missoulian includes an item on the 1914 robberies by Ed Trafton and Charles Erpenback of 15 stagecoaches in succession in Yellowstone Park, all within an hour. News accounts in the days after the heists are interesting. The first of the robbed passengers to reach Livingston said [...]
admin | July 21, 2009
From the Missoulian in September 1904: STRONG PROTEST TO FOREST RESERVE Philipsburg Mass Meeting Declares That it Would Retard Industries and is Unnecessary “Residents of Philipsburg in the city yesterday stated that the mass meeting in the “burg” Thursday to protest against the establishment of the forest reserve in Granite county was largely attended and [...]
admin | July 1, 2009
Long story short, the compartmentalized and hieroglyphics-pocked rock that crashed to earth near Cadotte Pass in Montana in 1864 (see previous post) remains undiscovered — at least by yours truly. Not that I didn’t try. Short story long: I went up there Monday, first stopping at the ranger station near Lincoln for a map. Cadotte [...]
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