admin | February 25, 2010
Kris Crawford, who works tirelessly to capture and share the history of the Target Range area in southwestern Missoula, writes about an event taking place at Dales Dairy tomorrow night. “We have a Target Range history study group working on various families and structures in our neighborhood area. This Friday from 6-8:30p.m. in Dales Dairy, [...]
admin | February 22, 2010
From Jeff Herman, friend; former Missoulian sports/copy editor; inventor of the “page stretcher” with which all new copy girls and boys became quickly familiar; Missoula Timberjacks batboy, and the man who, for better or worse, gave me my first shot in the newspapering business in 1974: Just a little footnote for your local history and [...]
admin | February 22, 2010
Ken Robison, the Mullan Road guru from Great Falls/Fort Benton, sends this update: From May 20-22, 2010 the River & Plains Society will host the 150th Anniversary Mullan Road Conference in Fort Benton. The conference celebrates completion of the Mullan Military Wagon Road in 1860, the first wagon road from Fort Benton to cross the [...]
admin | February 16, 2010
Great news! The 2011 Montana history conference will be held in Missoula, Sept. 22-24, 2011. This is the annual conference sponsored by the Montana Historical Society and this year, co-sponsored by the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula and the University of Montana. The tentative theme will focus on war and peace, acknowledging 2011 as the [...]
admin | February 10, 2010
Time for some detective work. Diane Sands at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula got the following e-mail the other day. So far, none of the resources Diane or I turn to have shed light on Willy deMero, a singer/songwriter who supposedly was born in 1903 in Alberton and died in 1998 in a “small [...]
admin | February 10, 2010
A doctor in Charlotte, N.C., wrote the newspaper today seeking personal recollections of Silas Thompson. Thompson, of Charlotte, was a 21-year-old smokejumper when he and 12 others died in the Mann Gulch fire on Aug. 5, 1949. “I am involved in an historical project involving his life for a public television in (Charlotte),” writes Dr. [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Here’s how John Neihardt described his visit to the highest of the Great Falls of the Missouri in late July, 1908: “I caught myself tightly gripping the ledge and shrinking with a shuddering instinctive fear. Then suddenly the thunders seemed to stifle all memory of sound – and left only the silent universe with myself [...]
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