‘Strange Light’ Sighted Over City Eight persons reportedly watched from a Missoula backyard Tuesday night as a bright, white, round object hovered in the sky, then moved off in a northerly direction. Charles Dene Leach, New Orleans, a freshman at Louisiana State University, said he first observed a dimmer object Read More
Search For Gold – 1897 Party to Penetrate the Bitter Roots to Find Placers of Untold Richness Again an effort will be made to locate the rich placer mines in the Bitter Root mountains of which the Nez Perce Indians have told so many tales. The Spokane Spokesman-Review in announcing Read More
Prof. Reitz Doused With Foul Water, Seltzer And Rattlesnake’s Best. Followed to His Hotel Amid a Shower of Overripe Hen Fruit – Who’s to Blame? Prof. E. C. Reitz proprietor of the Garden City Commercial college received rough treatment last night shortly after midnight at the hands of a Missoula Read More
Pathetic Scene – Missoula Mercantile Windows Sad Recollections. A Show Window Brings Up the Past to Husband and Wife. One of the most pathetic scenes witnessed in Missoula for a long time occurred in front of the Missoula Mercantile company store last night shortly before 9 o’clock. There were Read More
Almost a Duel by J. J. Healy In early days, when Western Montana was known as a geographical portion of Washington Territory, the only places of resort for the frontiersman were the several trading posts of the great fur companies, or perhaps the isolated residences of some hunters and trappers Read More
Notes On Missoula’s Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1918 – 3 ‘Waves’ Below is a short synopsis of an article about the flu pandemic that appeared in Montana the Magazine of Western History in 1987: From – “Montanans and “The Most Peculiar Disease”: The Influenza Epidemic and Public Health, Read More
4 Killed Over Missoula – 1943 Missoula’s first fatal plane crash occurred on September 10, 1943. It happened when 2 airplanes met mid-air; each carrying an aviation student pilot from the University, and a local flying instructor from Johnson Flying Service in Missoula. These aviation students were part of the new Read More
Rudolph Valentino and Missoula’s Alfred Addleman Rudolph Valentino Passes Through City Rudolph Valentino, the movie actor, who passed through Missoula yesterday on his way to Spokane, did not create a very favorable impression with the women who gathered at the Northern Pacific station to see him. As the train pulled Read More
Missoula’s 1920’s Dance Halls, Dance Bands, and the Origins of Jazz in Missoula – by Ed Erlandson and Richard K. O’Malley Fancy footwork in the Garden City by Ed Erlandson Recently a reader asked for information about Tokyo Gardens, a dance hall that attracted thousands of Missoula area residents during Read More
Village of Schley Has Real Mystery Unidentified Species of Animal Seen Grazing on Mountain Tops The town of Schley, west of Missoula, on Evaro hill, has a real mystery. In its front yard, which extends to the Mission range, high up on the mountain side, outlined against the deep snows, Read More