Fabulous Lewis and Clark Highway Finally Done – 1962

Completion of Lolo Pass Road Talked At Meet Route Has Priority Status In Next Appropriation Of Federal Funds. Present status of the Lewis and Clark highway through Lolo pass west along the Lochsa and ways and means of expediting its completion were discussed at a meeting at Boise, attended by Read More

Trip To Spokane – 11 Hours

Trip To Spokane Made From Here In 11 Hours After making the trip from Missoula to Spokane by automobile Sunday in 11 hours, W. C. Elmore returned to Missoula by rail yesterday. In speaking of the roads, Mr. Elmore said that from Missoula to Frenchtown they are rough, but from Read More

Hellgate Coal Mine Caves In – 1917

Hellgate Mine Caves In – 1917 About 2,500 Tons of Coal Lost by Collapse of Timbers in Mine Due to the collapse of the retaining timbers of the walls and roof of the main section of the Hellgate coal mine, operated north of the city by the Hellgate Coal company, Read More

Peter Perry’s “Pyrrhic Victory”

Peter Perry’s Pyrrhic Victory Perry Wins From N. P., But Loses Best Friend – His Dog Dies at Post Once more the dramatic story of the faithfulness of man’s dearest friend, a dog, has been enacted – and with the inevitable ending, the dog giving up his life rather than Read More

“Ceased to Exist” – Red Lights Turned Out – 1917

Red Lights Turned Out Restricted District Closed Without Trouble; Inmates Leaving. Missoula’s “line” ceased to exist at 12:01 o’clock this morning. The demise was quiet. The police were on hand to see that the suicide sentence imposed a month ago by a concert of county and city authorities was carried Read More

1st Auto Eastward Bound over Idaho – Montana Divide – 1914

Over Mullan Pass In An Auto Safely First Through Trip On The New Road Delights Tourist Party Mullan. May 30 – (Special.) – The first automobile eastward bound over the Idaho – Montana divide on the new road between Mullan and Missoula passed through Mullan this week and reached Saltese, Read More

Gone In A Cloud of Dust – 224 foot stack

And Gone In A Cloud Of Dust A 51-year-old Missoula landmark, well known to area pilots especially, came down Thursday with a flare that only a 250-ton, 224-foot high structure could provide. Dropped was the stack at the American Crystal Sugar Co. plant, which was closed in 1965. The property Read More

‘Debs’ at Harnois Theater – 1923

Eugene Debs Speaks in Missoula – 9/8/1923 DEBS SAYS SOCIAL SYSTEM HAS SERVED HISTORIC PURPOSE Speaker Addresses Crowded House at Harnois Theater Last Evening. “I am of the minority which believes that the social system in which we live has fulfilled its historic mission, executed the mandate of history,” said Read More

Deane Jones On Missoula Bootlegging

Deane Jones – KEEPING UP with Jones – on Missoula Bootlegging PROBING OLD STILLS. So your want a story of bootleg days? At least that’s what half a dozen requests indicate. Well, we could open a Pandora’s box by going into that. Every community in America must have hundreds of Read More