Montana Yesterday

Another family Christmas ride with Stubby

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 [...]

What was Montana like when Mullan came through?

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 [...]