admin | December 22, 2009
(We ran this in the Christmas Day newspaper a couple of years ago, but things have changed only a bit at my house. Niki and Molly are home for the holidays from college, Kara just finished helping stage her first Christmas play as the K-4 teacher in Ovando, and — best of all — Marli [...]
Category: Christmas, Cowboys, Old West, Ranching |
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Tags: Christmas, Jack Schaefer, Stubby Pringle
admin | December 8, 2009
We’re in the early stages of the 150th anniversary of construction of the Mullan Road (see story in Missoulian, Dec. 5) and if you’re like me you get to wondering what it was like around here in 1859-60. George Weisel’s trusty “Men and Trade on the Northwest Frontier,” a remarkable study based on the ledger [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, David Thompson, Explorations, Flathead reservation, Fort Owen, Fur trade, Gold mining, history milestones, John Mullan, Lewis and Clark, Mining, Missoula history, Montana, Montana Territory, Mullan Road, Native Americans, Western Montana history |
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Tags: "Men and Trade on the Northwest Frontier", 1859-60, Angus McDonald, Bannocks, Blackfeet, Capt William Raynolds, Christopher Higgins, Flatheads, Fort Benton, Fort Connah, Fort Owen, Frank Worden, George Weisel, Gold Creek, Granville Stuart, Hellgate, Hudson's Bay Co., James Stuart, Kalispel, Kootenay, Maj. George Blake, Michael Ogden, Mullan Road, Reece Anderson, Richard Landsdale, Shoshone, St. Ignatius Mission, Tom Adams, Upper Pend d'Oreilles
