‘Biblical sidelights of the 1908 Flood’ – Reinhard’s Authentic Missoula Flood Record – Moses at work on Jumbo and $1,000 by Circus Carrier Pigeon

Authentic Records of the Floods Paul Reinhard Finds Dates And Figures Entered By His Father Some interesting information in connection with the present high water of the Missoula river was furnished The Missoulian yesterday by Paul Reinhard, in the nature of some records of former years which had been kept Read More

Large Properties Near Missoula Change Hands 1909 – 1910

Large Properties Near Missoula Change Hands Big Sale of Fruit Acreage Fruitdale Ranch in O’Keefe’s Canyon Is Sold to a Dakota Company. That fruit lands in western Montana are in demand is evidenced by the sale of the big Fruitdale farm, owned by Messrs Black and Ray to a syndicate Read More

Caught On The Run About Town – Big Fish Stories – 7/11/1910

Caught On The Run About Town – The Missoulian – 7/11/1910 Sunday is a great day for fishermen of Missoula. Sunday morning the tired newspaper man, done with helping at the birth of another edition, sees the men of rod and reel in the restaurants, getting a snack for the Read More

Missoula’s Hottest Day Ever – July 14, 1910

Mercury Climbs To Tube’s Top Government Thermometer Shows Record For Missoula, 102 Degrees. Yesterday the thermometer recorded a temperature that is unprecedented for Missoula and western Montana, 102 degrees. It was the government instrument on the campus of the University of Montana that made this record, too, and it stands Read More

FDR Sojourning at Valley of the Moon? – 1920

Roosevelt Gets Big Welcome In Missoula – Sojourning at Valley of the Moon? Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Missoula Aug. 20, 1920. He was on a barnstorming tour of several western states as the candidate for Vice President on the Democratic ticket with Presidential candidate Read More

1st Auto Over Gibbon’s Pass – 1907 – Dinsmore, Thompson and Smith

First Car Over Gibbon’s Pass – 1907 Up the Steep Pitch of Gibbon Pass and Into the Big Hole in an Auto Remarkable Trip of a Missoula Car and Three Boys Who Stayed With It in as Difficult a Ride as Was Ever Undertaken in an Automobile Anywhere. At 9 Read More

“A merry show while it lasted” – 1907

Myrtle Wilcox Goes To Wallace – She Takes Clarence With Her And Bennett Hikes Out For Salt Lake Missoula has probably seen the last of the principals in the Wilcox seriocomic performance that held the boards in the county jail and in the court of Justice Phillips for a while Read More

Missoula’s Deadly Garbage – 1903

Missoula’s Deadly Garbage – 1903 City Will Have A New Dump Napoleon Reeves Complains to the Council That He Has Lost Three Cows. Missoula, July 14. – The city is to have a new dump for its garbage. Napoleon Reeves appeared before the council on Monday evening with a very Read More

Pathetic Story of a Faithful Dog – 1901

Story of Faithful Dog – 1901 Faithful Unto Death Pathetic Story of a Dog Who Guarded Dead Master. Is Now in Missoula Where He Was Brought by Widow of Man Who Was Frozen to Death. Yesterday morning there alighted from the east-bound train a lady and a dog that will Read More

Mayor Shoup Won’t Sell Island – 1967

Mayor Says Island Not Up for Sale by Denn Curran Mayor Richard G. Shoup announced late Tuesday that city land offered for sale to finance acquisition of land for a new city hall will not include the so-called island – the land underneath and east and west of the Higgins Read More