admin | January 29, 2010
When you think about it, Butte and Helena were started by miners, Billings as a transportation hub for steamboats and railroads, Great Falls for its water power, coal mining and agriculture. Kalispell was a railroad and agriculture town. Missoula was attractive for its lumber and agricultural possibilities, and eventually the railroads. But its roots are [...]
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″ [...]
admin | January 6, 2010
Ty Robinson remembers the impression the Missoula Mercantile made on him the first day he went to work for the downtown store in 1948. (See story in today’s Missoulian on the history of the Merc.) “I was taken downstairs and they must have had 2,000 or 3,000 pairs of horseshoes,” Robinson told me yesterday. He [...]
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 [...]
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