admin | October 29, 2010
Oct. 29, 1867 There are eight school districts in Madison County, but as far as A.M.S. Carpenter can tell, none are open in Beaverhead County and none have even been organized in Chouteau County. In fact, Carpenter knows of only two of Montana’s 10 counties that have schools. So he has noted in a report [...]
admin | July 29, 2009
As Oglala Sioux war chief Red Cloud watched from a distance, U.S. soldiers packed up and left Fort C.F. Smith, beginning the abandonment of military posts along the Bozeman Trail. Early the next day, Red Cloud and his warriors swooped down on the fort and burned it in celebration. For two years they’d resisted construction [...]
admin | May 26, 2009
We’re talking historic dates here. Consult previous post below about May 26, 1863. One year later, President Abraham Lincoln put his John Henry on a bill creating Montana Territory from Idaho Territory. I can’t find anything especially dramatic about the signing, though wouldn’t we all like to have been a fly on the wall of [...]
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