Missoula’s first poet – Paul Cyr Article from the Roundup Record-Tribune and Winnett Times, June 22, 1933. MONTANA SONG MADE IN 1867 First Poem About State Written By Paul Cyr When Working In Butte Mines It was intended to follow the tune of “Charming Erie,” Read More
“The Traveling Sataspians” Excerpts from Norman Wicklund Macleod’s autobiography “I Never Lost Anything in Istanbul,” Pembroke Magazine # 5 – 1973. “My next recollection is of riding in an open observation car – something like the top deck of a Fifth Avenue bus – of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Read More
Emil Petaja – Author Emil was born in Milltown, Montana in 1915, the youngest of 10 children born to John and Hanna Petaja. He attended schools in Bonner, Missoula, and Montana State in Bozeman, Montana. He was a prolific writer whose career involved poems, short stories, novels, magazine articles, and Read More
‘Serendipity & The Bitter Roots’- Macleod, Maclean & libraries A few years back I was paying frequent visits to Missoula’s libraries. I was going through volumes of the old Missoula County High newspaper – The Konah, and the local newspaper, The Missoulian. My main mission was trying to Read More
David Rorvik thrived on shaking things up while editor of the University of Montana’s Kaimin newspaper. He later took it a step further when he wrote ‘In His Image, the Cloning of a Man’, published in 1978. Sherry Devlin’s Missoulian article about David appeared in the Missoulian, April 30, 1998. Read More
Maurice Helterline’s story was the subject of a Missoulian article by reporter John Stromnes. It appeared in The Missoulian on April 15, 2005. A link to this article appears below. Helterline was author of ‘Horse Plains, Montana Territory’, a history of the Plains, Montana area, published in 1984. http://missoulian.com/hometowns/plains-historian-has-spent-the-last-years-gathering-details-on/article_d23d66bb-f3f9-5f58-bd22-f4627cd484bf.html
Elmer Keith was severely burned as a youngster in Missoula. He documented his life in his book, “Hell, I Was There”. A link to his book appears in the Local Books section on this website. Below is a link to the44 Magnum article by John Taffin. http://www.sixguns.com/BookOfThe44/bot44c09.htm
Rocky Mountain Joe Death Ends Sufferings of a Well Known Miner Death came at 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon to Joseph Reece at the Trinity Hospital, an account of whose critical condition following an accident at DeBorgia of six weeks before was given in this paper yesterday. Read More
“Though little remembered today, Robert Park Mills (1920–1986) played a quiet but prominent part in shaping science fiction and fantasy from the 1950s through the ’80s. He was no flamboyant character, but as an editor and, especially, as a literary agent, Mills put into print some of the best-known works Read More
The article below appeared in The Torch – Spring 2009 Dorothy Johnson – International Honorary Member There once was an author who wrote such classic short stories as “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” and “A Man Called Horse” and was praised for painstaking research Read More