Montana Yesterday

A slice of life of Missoula 1893

admin | March 8, 2010

My previous post about Briggsville and George Briggs was based on the following article from the Missoulian, Feb. 15, 1893. It seems like this is a  pretty important piece of Missoula’s history, and there are still plenty of unsolved mysteries within. One is the reference to Prof. J. M. Hamilton, the president of “the university” [...]

Where in the world (or Missoula) was Briggsville?

admin | March 7, 2010

Our Sunday history almanac a couple of weeks ago in the Territory section of the Missoulian included an item about a brief strike by the motormen of the Missoula Electric Street Railway Co. in February 1893. It came from a Missoulian article that offered a fascinating and sometimes surprising slice of life in Missoula in [...]