Cedar Creek (Superior) – 100 Sluices – 800 to 1000 ounces of gold weekly The Cedar Creek Country. As it may take a week or two to write up the Cedar Creek camps in detail, and the question “What do you think of Cedar?” is asked with considerable interest by Read More
Worden’s Market – A Missoula Icon by Robert Giffin In 1890 in Missoula, Montana, Tyler Worden and Charles Bishop founded a small Missoula business. Starting out as Bishop and Worden’s Grocery, it was abbreviated in five years to simply Worden’s Grocery with Tyler buying out Charles but unbeknownst to either Read More
Peter Whaley Pioneer Goes Over The Divide Peter Whaley Veteran of Alder Gulch And Bitter Root, Answers Last Call. Peter Whaley, pioneer of Montana, passes away yesterday morning at his home on the south side, after a lingering illness. For weeks his death had been hourly expected, but his wonderfully Read More
Jacob Leiser – Missoula’s 1st Jewish Citizen Jacob Leiser Passes Peacefully Away Jacob S. Leiser died at 2 o’clock this morning. With varying conditions he has been ill for ten days. An attack of acute bronchitis that then caused him to take to a bed of illness developed the Read More
AN OLD SET OF BOOKS. A Flood of Light on Conditions and Prices in Hell Gate Back in the Early Sixties. Missoula, Nov. 26 [1897] Henry O. Worden of the firm of Murphy & Worden has in his possession a set of day books and ledgers that were kept by Read More
Western Montana – 1860 [Some Basic Western Montana History – Less than 100 white people] by Paul C. Phillips[1] of the State University History Department The census of 1860 showed less than 100 white people living in what is now Western Montana, and practically all of these were men. Many Read More
Son of City’s Founder Taken By Death Here Arthur Higgins, Last of Pioneer Family, Succumbs. By A. L. Stone. Arthur Higgins is dead – the word passed quickly along the avenue Monday morning. Along the avenue which bears the name of his famous father, pioneer of pioneers, co-founder of the Read More
Montana’s First Steam Thresher – Missoula’s John S. Caldwell Steam Thresher – On Saturday evening last Mr. John S. Caldwell of Missoula county, arrived here, 14 days out from Corinne, with a thresher and patent separator, made at the famous Russell Manufactory, Massillon, O., and a portable ten-horse power steam Read More
The Origin of Maclay Bridge – 1891 M. M. McCauley, Thos. Foley and Wm. P. Maclay were appointed viewers for a road across the Bitter Root river at the old ferry near the fort, through the lane between Thos. Foley’s and Wm. Kelley’s land, and thence east to the military Read More
Dinner Bell Is Symbolic of Hotel Life in Early Days Here Back in Missoula’s early days when the sound of a bell was heard from the lobby and the sidewalk outside the Grand Central Hotel, there was a rush to the dining room to smack lips over an ample meal Read More