Blackfoot Pioneer William Boyd (founder of Boyd Ranch) by Terrence B. Kayes

Boyd History (1)    ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ April 30, 2016 William Boyd Death & Funeral Notices Missoula, Montana (With Comments & Supplemental Information) Death: Sunday, 24 May 1942 Funeral: Wednesday, 27 May 1942 _________________________________________________________________________________ © Terrence B. Kayes Included below are transcriptions Read More

Edgar S. Paxson – Missoula artist

Paxson Art Gets National Acclaim Work Still Displayed In Local Buildings Edgar S. Paxson was not a builder in the ordinary sense. The only building he erected in the Garden City was a little frame structure of a story and a half located on the back of a lot in Read More

Hugh and Mamie Campbell – Missoula County Sheriff & sister of Sheriff Bill Kelley

  Campbell – Kelly [Kelley]   The Marriage of Two of the Popular Young People of this City   Hugh Campbell, the third baseman and change pitcher of the Missoula baseball club was married this morning at 10:30 to Miss Mamie Kelly, an estimable and popular young lady of this Read More

1st Presbyterian Pastor Rev. Milton L. Cook – Volunteer @ Fort Fizzle

  Rev. Milton L. Cook – Missoula’s first Presbyterian Pastor   When did the Presbyterian Church first come to Montana? Who founded Missoula’s Presbyterian Church?   The answers can be found in an interesting little book furnished by the Presbyterian Church titled “The Pioneer Work of the Presbyterian Church in Read More

Missoula’s Gardens – William McWhirk by Bob McWhirk

See link below for article on William McWhirk: http://ww2020.net/wp-content/uploads/william_mcwhirk.pdf Also, see link below for article on McWhirk in Leeson’s History of Montana: https://books.google.com/books?id=lB1PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1313&dq=j+w+mccarty+missoula+history+leeson&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e-HNUqTFCpD1oATB6oHIAQ#v=onepage&q=j%20w%20mccarty%20missoula%20history%20leeson&f=false

Missoula’s 1st Missoulian newspaper

    The First Missoulian   The article below appeared in the Roundup Record-Tribune and Winnett Times – June 1, 1933.       PIONEER DAYS ARE RECALLED IN FILES   Because the early publishers of The Missoulian, Missoula, apparently did not realize the value that the publication would be Read More

Frank Woody’s House – 1907

  CUTTING DOWN OLD LANDMARKS   Messrs. Keith and Ross started a crew of men to work today cutting down and removing the large trees from the old Judge Woody place, preparatory to the erection of a fine new three-story brick business block. Efforts are being made to secure a Read More

Cold Weather by Frank Woody

    CHAMPIONS RECORDS OF LONG AGO Judge F. H. Woody Says Recent Cold Weather Does Not Class With 60’s In speaking of the cold weather Judge F. H. Woody has the following to say: “The Missoulian in its recent issues, has been claiming that now the tenderfoot of six Read More

John Vickers – Missoula Pioneer Dies – Cedar Creek Placer Miner

  John Vickers Dies Suddenly   Came To Missoula in Seventy-one From Cedar Creek Placer Mines.   Without Warning the sure hand of death suddenly removed another of the pioneers of Missoula yesterday. While walking quietly along a North Missoula street during the forenoon, John Vickers, aged sixty-two years and Read More

Missoula’s 1st Wagon and the luck of Flathead Fisherman Francois Saxa

  Missoula’s first Wagon and the luck of a Flathead Fisherman     The following description of the Peter DeSmet mission is largely taken from the book, Jesuits in Montana – 1840 – 1960, by Reverend Wilfred P. Schoenberg, S. J., published in 1960, and Frontier Omnibus, by John W. Read More