admin | March 25, 2010
If not for Benjamin Rush, there might not be a Travelers’ Rest State Park out by Lolo. Rush was one of our nation’s founding fathers, he signed the Declaration of Independence, and in 1812 he famously soothed the bruised feelings between former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and got them talking — or at [...]
admin | March 23, 2010
Think horse racing was on the minds of Missoulians in 1891? Here are two separate blurbs, posted on the same day (Feb. 16, 1891) in the Missoula Gazette: “Cashier Keith of the First National Bank is the possessor of a new horse which promises to make its mark on the Missoula track next season. He [...]
admin | March 20, 2010
In the post below, I noted that Gary Moulton is working on a narrative of the day-by-day travels of Lewis and Clark. At a conference called “Science & Humanities: Inseparable by Nature” last Sunday in Great Falls, he talked about another research project concerning Sacajawea. How many times, he asked an audience that was clearly [...]
admin | March 18, 2010
Good news out of Great Falls last weekend for Lewis and Clarkies. Gary Moulton is back in the game. He’s best known for editing 13 volumes worth of the L&C journals back in the 1980s, and Moulton lent an authoritative voice throughout the Bicentennial a few years ago. Retired from the University of Nebraska, he [...]
admin | March 17, 2010
It’ll be several weeks before demolition of the old Florence Laundry building on East Front and Pattee is Missoula is complete. Jim Howard of Frenchtown sends these thoughts: “I have many good memories of the old Florence Laundry as my granddad and, later, dad ran the business. “One very important historical point, though, that wasn’t [...]
admin | March 10, 2010
A couple of posts ago we discussed what little we found out about George Briggs and Briggsville, a “suburb” of Missoula in the early 1890s just east of Fort Missoula, where by 1893 paper mills were apparently employing hundreds of women. Here’s George’s death story in the Missoulian, Dec. 16, 1927:
admin | March 9, 2010
Just a note: Today marks the 130th anniversary of the entrance of the first railroad into Montana (Territory). On March 9, 1880, the Utah and Northern laid tracks over Monida Pass. In their book “The Battle for Butte,” Michael Malone and William Lang wrote of the occasion: “Butte folks sipped champagne and listened joyously to [...]
admin | March 9, 2010
Keg on. The Aber Day Kegger documentary that premiered last October at the University of Montana will hit the airwaves next Monday night. It’s scheduled for 7 p.m. on KUFM-TV, as part of the station’s semi-annual pledge drive. It’ll repeat Sunday, March 21, at 2 p.m. The DVD will be among the featured premiums for [...]
admin | March 8, 2010
My previous post about Briggsville and George Briggs was based on the following article from the Missoulian, Feb. 15, 1893. It seems like this is a pretty important piece of Missoula’s history, and there are still plenty of unsolved mysteries within. One is the reference to Prof. J. M. Hamilton, the president of “the university” [...]
admin | March 7, 2010
Our Sunday history almanac a couple of weeks ago in the Territory section of the Missoulian included an item about a brief strike by the motormen of the Missoula Electric Street Railway Co. in February 1893. It came from a Missoulian article that offered a fascinating and sometimes surprising slice of life in Missoula in [...]
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