admin | March 31, 2009
A follow-up on the below post “cours de femmes”: Cindy Stalcup pointed out in a comment that Gustav Sohon supplied a drawing of Charles LaMoose that’s in the Smithsonian. The date on it is May, 1854. The title on the Smithsonian website is: “Portrait of Lamuh Called Charles Lamoose, with Hair-Braids And Buttoned Shirt (Lives [...]
admin | March 31, 2009
In December Bob Hayes, who lives at the top of Evaro Hill, told me a little anecdote about his ranch, which he was putting into a conservation easement. The story goes that in the 1840s a Hudson’s Bay Co. trader staged a footrace in which 40 Flathead women ran, across these same flats, around a [...]
admin | March 24, 2009
We’ve all heard about how the railroads changed the namescape of the country they passed through, assigning names to each station. Here’s an excerpt from a hard-to-read railroad column in the Weekly Missoulian in 1883, as the main line of the Northern Pacific was being completed in Montana: “The man who deals out names to [...]
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