admin | January 29, 2010
When you think about it, Butte and Helena were started by miners, Billings as a transportation hub for steamboats and railroads, Great Falls for its water power, coal mining and agriculture. Kalispell was a railroad and agriculture town. Missoula was attractive for its lumber and agricultural possibilities, and eventually the railroads. But its roots are [...]
admin | January 29, 2010
Thanks to Minie Smith for pointing this out. She’s been researching the Fires of 1910 for the Fort Missoula museum and came across a large ad in the Aug. 20, 1910, Missoulian (the day the fires took off). There’s a photo of the Merc in the middle top with “1885″ on one side and “1910″ [...]
admin | January 27, 2010
Why, for instance, is the Burnt Fork of the Bitterroot called that? Here’s the answer, thanks to a new Internet offering, mtplacenames.org, from the Montana Historical Society and the Montana State Library. “Burnt Fork of the Bitterroot River The name Burnt Fork dates from as early as the 1850s, when Major John Owen filed the [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Carl Haywood of Thompson Falls (“Sometimes Only Horses to Eat”) sent this note in last Thursday: Wanted to share an exciting bit of information with friends and relatives I think might be interested. An hour ago I received an e-mail inviting me to present a paper on Explorer David Thompson (the subject of my book) [...]
admin | January 20, 2010
This just in from the Montana Historical Society. Note applications are due by March 1: The Montana Historical Society offers up to two DAVE WALTER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS every summer to researchers pursuing local history topics in Montana history. The Dave Walter Research Fellowship is intended to help Montanans conduct research on their towns, counties, etc., [...]
admin | January 20, 2010
This from the folks at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula: “It’s the end of an era, the end of a Missoula landmark, the end of 143 years as the centerpiece of downtown Missoula. The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula joins the rest of Missoula in mourning the departure of Macy’s, still affectionately known to [...]
admin | January 6, 2010
My name is Carl Beebe and I started working at the Missoula Mercantile in 1961 in the basement of the china department while still in high school, and after the military and a degree from the University of Montana, I would leave “The Merc” as the assistant store manager a year after it was absorbed [...]
admin | January 6, 2010
Ty Robinson remembers the impression the Missoula Mercantile made on him the first day he went to work for the downtown store in 1948. (See story in today’s Missoulian on the history of the Merc.) “I was taken downstairs and they must have had 2,000 or 3,000 pairs of horseshoes,” Robinson told me yesterday. He [...]
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