admin | September 12, 2009
This is the fourth of an apparently continuing saga of Charles Lindbergh’s trip to Elbow/Lindbergh Lake in September 1927 (the first three posts are below). What did he do there? Jon Axline, historian for the Montana Department of Transportation, wrote this about that part of Lindbergh’s Montana visit in 2004, in his article “The Lone [...]
admin | September 12, 2009
We’ve been talking about Charles Lindbergh’s “vacation” to what would become Lindbergh Lake in the Upper Swan Valley from Sept. 8-11,1927 (see my two previous posts below). He was escorted there from Butte by Anaconda Co. officials, in the midst of a cross-country tour that included public stops in Butte and Helena. The location of [...]
admin | September 9, 2009
My previous post got into part of the Missoulian’s account of Charles Lindbergh’s vacation to what became Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley. Here’s the rest: “The site for Lindbergh’s camp was selected by a reconnaissance party sent out by John D. Ryan (of New York), chairman of the board of directors of the Anaconda [...]
admin | September 9, 2009
Charles Lindbergh was the kind of guy around whom tales grew with the telling. So you have to be careful about those stories surrounding his visit to Montana in September 1927, which I touched on in Sunday’s Montana History Almanac. He was arguably the most famous man in the world when he flew the “Spirit [...]
admin | September 3, 2009
Christine Nyholm of the Des Moines Examiner in Iowa posted a Q&A today that she had with the Gunny, R. Lee Ermey, about his show “Lock N’ Load” on the History Channel. Ermey refers to his trip to Missoula in April to drive and fire Hayes Otoupalik’s historic French-designed Renault FT-17, a World War I [...]
admin | September 1, 2009
One of my late dog’s favorite places to romp was through Tunnel 16 1/2. It’s the train tunnel on the abandoned Milwaukee Road above what once was the Milltown Dam. In the 1990s until dam cleanup workers gated it off a few years ago, it was a palette for surprising splashes of “street art,” much [...]
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