Missoula and Frenchtown Down and Dirty – 1874 – Letter by Leonidas H Boyle (Sterling Price Confederate Soldier and Co-founder of Missoula Pioneer Newspaper)

Canvasing for A Rocky Mountain Railroad. St. Louis Journal of Agriculture, April During the winter of ’72 and ’73 the citizens of Montana were very much exercised (and somewhat divided) upon the subject of a “North and South Railroad” – a road which was to unite Helena with some point Read More

A Short History of The Missoulian by Sam Gilluly – 1985

Missoulian History – 1870 to 1985 The Missoulian claims the title of Montana’s oldest continuous operation as a newspaper. The Missoulian was the successor to the Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer, which was founded at Superior, then called Cedar Creek, in 1870. The owners were Joseph Magee and I. H. Read More

When Acerbic Judge Woody Wrote Own Obituary

When Judge Woody Was Editor The Time Of His Resignation Called To Mind By Story In Madisonian. Missoula people will remember well Frank Conway, who was for some time a member of the editorial staff of the Missoulian and who for the past few years has been with the Anaconda Read More

City of Change Articles – Missoulian 2003 – 2005

City of Change – Missoulian articles 6/22/2003 – Downtown https://www.newspapers.com/image/351744356 4/11/2004 – Northside/Westside https://www.newspapers.com/image/352390101/ 1/9/2005 – South Missoula https://www.newspapers.com/image/352343180 4/10/2005 – Rattlesnake https://www.newspapers.com/image/352179789/ 6/6/2005 – Lewis & Clark – from Our town https://www.newspapers.com/image/352213854

Missoulian’s ‘Old Reliable’ 50th Anniversary Edition – Laced with Missoula’s History

Missoulian’s ‘Old Reliable’ 50th anniversary edition – Laced with Local History MISSOULIAN CELEBRATES FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY HALF A CENTURY IS ITS RECORD OF GOOD DEEDS History of Old Reliable Since Its Life Began Just Fifty Years Ago. It was back in 1873, during the financial and industrial panic of the Reconstruction Read More

Lee Enterprises, Don Anderson Explains Montana Newspapers

Lee Enterprises Wasn’t Low Bidder, Sale Negotiator Says [Nor Highest] By Paul Freeman – Associate Press Writer Great Fall (AP) – The man who negotiated the sale of the Anaconda Co.’s Montana newspapers to Lee Enterprises said on Saturday that Anaconda rejected offers higher than the Lee’s $5.7 million. Don Read More

Missoula Independent links now here

A few links on this website suffered an untimely demise when the Missoula Independent recently expired. With the hope that the archives of the Independent will someday return from their unfortunate grave, I will leave the articles/links alone for now. Their location, with the dates, is still there in most Read More

Out of the Dust – Western Hotel Rooster Fights and Charley Pride

Out of the Dust – Western Hotel Rooster Fights and Charley Pride Kicking around in the rubble across the street from The Missoulian office, where the Western Hotel stood until a few days ago, we stirred up more than dust. Among the ghosts unearthed were recollections of the rooster fights Read More

Deane Jones – Missoulian editor and columnist – No Regrets

Deane Jones – Missoulian editor and columnist – No Regrets Editor Deane Jones wrote an interesting column in The Missoulian for several years beginning in the 1967, often commenting about Missoula’s history and people or things associated with it. He was a native Missoulian and lived there most of his Read More

The Oracle – Missoulian Editor French T. Ferguson

Editor Ferguson Dies After Brief Illness French T. Ferguson, 71, died at a local hospital Wednesday after a brief illness. He had been editor of The Daily Missoulian and The Missoulian Sentinel since Sept. 1, 1939. His activities had been curtailed somewhat in recent years because of declining health, but Read More