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 | July 28, 2009

Will Moss’s story in Sunday’s Ravalli Republic and Missoulian told of the end of the 2009 Chief Joseph Trail Ride at the Big Hole National Battlefield on Sunday. Today marks the anniversary of a notable Saturday night in the flight of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce. Anybody out there have any Fort Fizzle anecdotes [...]

Category: 1870s-1880s, Missoula history, Native Americans, War, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: Capt. Charles Rawn, Chief Joseph, Fort Fizzle, Fort Missoula, Lolo Creek, Looking Glass, Nez Perce War, White Bird