Old Missoula

Missoula has a very rich history which is surprisingly unexplored. Other than the book “Missoula The Way It Was” by Lenora Koelbel, no attempt was ever made to publish a book that tried to examine the complete story of Missoula. In her book’s preface, Historian K. Ross Toole praised Koelbel, writing, “Missoulians themselves will simply find a great deal in it that will surprise them and inform them and they will gain an insight into the community in which they live available nowhere else.” Access to her book, as well as many other sources, is available on this website. Hopefully, anyone interested in Missoula will find something new and surprising here as well.

Contents of this Website

This site contains over 1,500 articles about the history of Missoula, Montana. We have tried to organize articles into meaningful categories, as listed in the sidebar. Note also the search field located at the top of the sidebar. This allows you to enter a key word to generate a list of relevant articles.