admin | December 6, 2011
Charles Dowd joined the U.S. Navy in January 1941, shortly after he turned 17. But he didn’t do it to fight in a war. “Never thought of it,” said Dowd when Missoulian photographer Michael Gallacher and I sat down with him Tuesday at his home in Anaconda. Dowd, a Pearl Harbor survivor, comes to Missoula [...]
admin | January 24, 2011
From the New York Times on Jan. 22, 1911, under the headline “Last Buffalo Hunt Now On: Michel Pablo Killing Off His Herd in Spite of Montana Authorities” CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 21 – The last act of a spectacular deal is now being enacted on the plains of the Flathead Reservation in Montana, where Michel [...]
admin | November 27, 2009
Annick Drosdal-Levillain got back to me early Thanksgiving Day, too late for her thank you to the people of Missoula to get in the paper yesterday. The story, headlined “Missoula Cemetery mystery unraveled,” was a follow-up on a Nov. 7 feature on her quest to chase down the ghost of her great-grandfather, Haakon Hauge, who [...]
admin | November 3, 2009
A couple of significant milestones occurred this time of year in western Montana, one 200 years ago and the other 150. In 1809, still barely three years after Lewis and Clark vacated the premises, David Thompson headed up the Clark Fork River to set up the state’s first trading post near Thompson Falls. In 1859, [...]
admin | October 23, 2009
Maybe it was frenzy-whipping propaganda, planted by Montana stockmen to gain the sympathies of the public, which they no doubt did. But the horror stories perpetrated by wolves got plenty of ink in the late 1800s. From the New York Times in October 1894: “BUTTE, Mon., Oct. 6 — Reports of ravages by great packs [...]
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 [...]
admin | September 9, 2009
Charles Lindbergh was the kind of guy around whom tales grew with the telling. So you have to be careful about those stories surrounding his visit to Montana in September 1927, which I touched on in Sunday’s Montana History Almanac. He was arguably the most famous man in the world when he flew the “Spirit [...]
admin | September 1, 2009
One of my late dog’s favorite places to romp was through Tunnel 16 1/2. It’s the train tunnel on the abandoned Milwaukee Road above what once was the Milltown Dam. In the 1990s until dam cleanup workers gated it off a few years ago, it was a palette for surprising splashes of “street art,” much [...]
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