Missoula’s Aber Day Keggers by Montana PBS

Below is the link to the Aber Day Kegger Documentary: http://www.montanapbs.org/AberDayKeggerDocumentary/

Elvis Presley v Aline Mosby

Below is the link to the Elvis History Blog: http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-aline-mosby.html

Missoula’s IWW and NP Woes – 1907

  The following two articles appeared side by side in the July, 5th, 1907 Missoula Herald.   CAN’T GET WORKMEN   NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY WANTS MORE HELP FOR IMPROVEMENT WORK.   The scarcity of labor is proving a great impediment to the Northern Pacific Railway Company, which is making extensive Read More

Origin of A Species – Missoula’s Maples – by Michael Quist Kautz – excerpt from Masters Thesis (2009) – University of Montana

Origin of a Species   Like much of the American west’s history, if you want to find the origin of the maple trees in Missoula, Montana, you have to head east, east until you meet town founder Francis Lyman Worden’s ancestors coming west.   Ralph Shepard was born in 1603 Read More

Assault – Higgins Brothers – Vigilante’s Unavenged Blood

  Higgins Assault Case   Below is a series of articles about a crazy incident that occurred in 1901, involving the beating of two men who somehow crossed the Higgins brothers, Frank and Arthur, during a late night party in downtown Missoula. At the time, Frank Higgins was Lieutenant Governor Read More

An Old Case Recalled – Murder / Suicide / and Money – 1902

  An Old Case Is Recalled   Search for the Heir of John P. Stewart Estate   Mrs. Stewart Killed Him in ‘95   Afterwards Committed Suicide – Boy is Heir to Quite a Tidy Bit of Money   The appearance in Missoula yesterday of Charles L. Heitman, an attorney Read More

Back to Wisconsin – 1902 – Opprobrium – she ought not to love Otto too well

  Back to Wisconsin   Otto Hearst Will Make the Journey in Charge of an Officer   A few short months ago Otto Hearst, aged 32 years, was a resident of Lacrosse, Wis. There he won the affections of a young lady who loved not wisely but too well. In Read More

Colony Scheme Failed – 1900

  The article below appeared in the Edwards Fruit Grower and Farmer.   Fruit Grower 10/12/1900 pg. 6   Colony Scheme Failed.   Didn’t Know a Good Thing When They Had It – Seven Men Brought from Butte   From Thursday’s Missoulian   Facts that came to light yesterday make Read More

Hellgate Treaty – 1855

Most Missoulians give little thought to the Hellgate Treaty signed at Council Grove west of Missoula in 1855. It’s significance was, and still is, not well understood by the average student of local history and what little information that was available on the subject didn’t help much. How important the Read More

Regents Sidestepped Law to Sell Fort Missoula Land – Spokesman Review – Aug 20, 1995

A link to the Spokesman Review article appears below: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19950820&id=47QpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0fEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5038,6439498