Missoula’s Kelly Island is named for members of the Kelley/Kelly family who settled in the Missoula valley after their long journey across the sea and the continent. Two young Irish immigrant brothers, Owen Kelley, the oldest, and William Kelly, both recently from California and Idaho, came to Missoula in 1870, Read More
Klondike Called Men Of Missoula In Rush For Gold Quarter-Century Ago Interest Was High; Adventures of People You Know. About 25 years ago the report of the discovery of gold in Alaska and north-western Canada reached the then “outside world.” The result of that report is well known and need Read More
“Tom Tuna Tom died at a local hospital yesterday morning, following an aggravated case of rheumatism from which he had suffered since October and from which he failed to recover. He had been a domestic in the home of G. A. Wolf and J. H. T. Ryman since July, 1910. Read More
Last Hard Rock Club Member Recalls Early Days On Eve of Leaving City Another link between Missoula and its past will be broken next Saturday when the last surviving member of the Hard Rock club pulls up his stakes and leaves for California. Numbering among its membership pioneers connected with Read More
Below is a blistering editorial scorning the Democrat candidate for Judge of Fourth Judicial District, Judge Frank Woody, printed in the Daily Missoulian two days before the November election of 1896. The Missoulian at that time was owned and edited by George E. Boos, a staunch Republican. His feud with Read More
Half-Century In Garden City For Mr. Barnes When in New York, back in the Gay Nineties, he was called “Mr. Barnes of Montana” and when in Montana he was called “Mr. Barnes of New York,” after a book popular at that time which was later dramatized. That was only a Read More
Old-Time Missoula Telegrapher Tells of Early Days of Western Union Here Employes and Patrons of Company Observe Diamond Anniversary of System’s Founding Today Today employes and patrons of the Western Union Telegraph company in Missoula and throughout the world will observe the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the great Read More
An article in The Daily Missoulian in 1911 focused on the original Worden & Co. Store at old Hell Gate. The store was started in 1860 by Frank L. Worden and C. P. Higgins, the two gentlemen who are generally considered the founders of the city of Missoula. The article Read More
Few of the old timers have had more varied and useful experiences in Montana than William H. Brennan, of Missoula. He has been in the great west nearly fifty years. Montana has been his home the greater part of this period. He has been a prospector, gold and silver miner, Read More
C. E. Woodworth Widely – Known Montanan, Dies Pioneer Resident of State Since Coming of N. P. in 1880’s Chancy Erastus Woodworth, civil engineer, surveyor, Wild West show proprietor, abstractor, mining engineer, school teacher, railway land agent, stenographer, bookkeeper, theater manager, rancher, sawmill operator and early-day photographer of Montana, died Read More