Montana Yesterday

admin | January 29, 2010

Thanks to Minie Smith for pointing this out. She’s been researching the Fires of 1910 for the Fort Missoula museum and came across a large ad in the Aug. 20, 1910, Missoulian (the day the fires took off). There’s a photo of the Merc in the middle top with “1885″ on one side and “1910″ [...]

Category: 1870s-1880s, Commemorations, Missoula Mercantile, Missoula history, Missoulian, Montana, Montana Territory, Montana local history, Northern Pacific Railroad, Railroads, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: A.B. Hammond, C.H. McLeod, Chief Joseph, Edward Bonner, J.M. Keith, Missoula Mercantile, R.A. Eddy

admin | September 9, 2009

My previous post got into part of the Missoulian’s account of Charles Lindbergh’s vacation to what became Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley. Here’s the rest: “The site for Lindbergh’s camp was selected by a reconnaissance party sent out by John D. Ryan (of New York), chairman of the board of directors of the Anaconda [...]

Category: 1920s, Aviation, Missoulian, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: 1927, Anaconda Copper Co., C.H. McLeod, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh Lake, Missoula Mercantile, Montana, Swan Valley