Montana Yesterday

admin | 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 [...]

Category: 1870s-1880s, 1910s, Buffalo, Flathead reservation, Montana tribes, Uncategorized, Western Montana history | 1 Comment »
Tags: 1911, Buffalo, Charles Allard, Charles Conrad, Edmonton, Flathead reservation, Michel Pablo, Missoulian, Montana, National Bison Range, New York Times

admin | October 19, 2010

Oct. 19, 1911 President William Taft steps off a special train on a cold morning in Butte wearing a broad smile, and hustles into an automobile bound for the Silver Bowl Club and breakfast. There, in the heart of Montana’s industrial center, the Republican talks agriculture. “The last census brings forth the fact that the [...]

Category: 1910s, Butte | No Comments »
Tags: "Roping A Grizzly", 1910 census, 1911, 1960, Broadway Theater, Butte, census, Charles M. Russell, Montana Gov. Norris, Montana Sen. Joseph Dixon, President William Taft, Silver Bowl Club

admin | May 9, 2010

The Anaconda Standard, for one, came close to “breaking” the story of the new Glacier National Park. In a story datelined “Washington, May 11 (1910),” the day President William Taft put his John Hancock to a bill that had been wrangled over in Congress for two years, a special dispatch to the Standard said the [...]

Category: 1910s, Commemorations, Glacier National Park, history milestones, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: 1910, 1911, Belton, chalets, Frank Stoop, Glacier National Park, Lake Five, President Taft