Montana Yesterday

Missoula’s first ice carnival, January 1924

| January 24, 2011

This was in the Jan. 24, 1924, Missoulian, under the headline “1,000 At Missoula’s First Ice Carnival: Exceptional Weather Brings Out Large Crowd to Initial Rink Event” Missoula’s first skating carnival was a success. Any doubt in the matter will be settled affirmatively by the crowd of nearly one thousand that lined the circumference of [...]

The last buffalo hunt in Montana (?)

| January 24, 2011

From the New York Times on Jan. 22, 1911, under the headline “Last Buffalo Hunt Now On: Michel Pablo Killing Off His Herd in Spite of Montana Authorities” CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 21 – The last act of a spectacular deal is now being enacted on the plains of the Flathead Reservation in Montana, where Michel [...]