Montana Yesterday

admin | June 8, 2010

We were in Milltown at the end of our last post. In just a few hundred yards, before you get to the churches and school at Bonner, turn right off Highway 200 onto Highway 210 through Piltzville. The Mullan Road tended to hug the base of the mountain tighter than the today’s highway does because [...]

Category: 1850s-1860s, John Mullan, Mullan Road, Railroads, Stagecoaches, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: Bearmouth, Beavertail Hill, Clinton, Medicine Tree Hill, Milltown, Mullan Road, Nimrod, Piltzville, Rock Creek, Turah

admin | November 19, 2009

Thought I’d trot this one out again. We ran it in the paper in the lead-up to  the 2001 “Brawl of the Wild.” Not everyone in Montana gives a damn about the Grizzly-Bobcat football game. But folks from all walks of life do, and don’t our peculiar walks define us? I’ve long thought the home [...]

Category: 1890s, Brawl of the Wild, Explorations, Football, Fur trade, Gold mining, John Mullan, Lewis and Clark, Missoula history, Montana, Mullan Road, Native Americans, Northern Pacific Railroad, Railroads, Ranching, University of Montana, Western Montana history, history milestones | 1 Comment »
Tags: Beavertail Hill, Bozeman, Charlie Russell, Coxey's Army, Deer Lodge Valley, Fort Keogh, Golden Spike ceremony, Griz-Cat, John Colter, John Mullan, Lewis and Clark, Missoula, Teddy Blue Abbott, Three Forks