Wild Horses on Mount Sentinel

Wild Horses Near City Come From Mt. Sentinel but Do Not Go Within Municipal Limits Six unbranded horses, small in stature, Tuesday night pawed and galloped and snorted around homes south of the University, but they seemed to sense the city limits and stayed in the country. They can not Read More

Black Pat Is Dead – 1892

Black Pat Dead He is shot While Riding Another Man’s Horse. Patrick Conley a hard case and a desperate character well known in Missoula as “Black Pat” was shot and killed at a railroad camp on Mason creek, Idaho, last Friday by a young man named Ed. Wilson. Wilson’s story Read More

Old West Rodeo Held At Florence – 1924

Old West Rodeo Held At Florence Bitter Root Town Re-Enacts Scenes of Early Montana Days. Florence, July 6. – Scenes of frontier days were lived again at the first annual Old West Rodeo held here Friday in connection with an Independence day celebration. During the day a score of riders Read More

Big Blackfoot River Monster Swallows Farmer’s Young Hogs

Big Blackfoot River Monster Swallowing Young Hogs – 1921 Golden Fish Tooth Is Won By “Chick” Sergeant Cummings Loses Story Contest All hail to the supreme potentate of rod and reel and salmon egg, W. W. (Chick) White. The Missoula chapter of the Ancient Order of the Tellers of the Read More

‘A Queer Case’ – She is Now in Horse Heaven – 1903

She is Now in Horse Heaven Mare That Attempted to be a Billy Goat A queer case has been occupying the attention of and greatly puzzling Dr. T. D. Jeffrey, the Missoula veterinarian for nearly a month past, but this week he solved the mystery, and great was the revelation. Read More

Not-Special President and Rabbits Under Higgins Bridge

Presidents and Rabbits Rabbit Colony In Heart of City Under Higgins Avenue Bridge The man who lived on the island in the Missoula river under the Higgins avenue bridge a few years ago had a pair of pet white rabbits. The trio lived there happily, no one knows how long. Read More

Gambling Tables Are Closed By Sheriff -1913

Gambling Tables Are Closed By Sheriff In Midnight Raid Officers Put The Lid On All Games In The City Shortly after midnight this morning members of the sheriff’s force completed a thorough raid on every place in town where it was thought gambling was going on, and all games are Read More

Bandmann’s Great Cow

A Great Cow The Holstein cow Cornelia on Daniel E. Bandmann’s ranch was milked yesterday from 5 a. m. to 5 p. m., three milkings and gave 7 ½ gallons of milk. She had been fed on last year’s upland hay from Minnesota. Mr. Bandmann thinks that if she had Read More

Floyd Frederickson – Hero boy 1929

Missoula Boy Is Hero of Accident Saves Four Lives Floyd Frederickson Pulls Companions From Car In Lolo Creek. Four Missoulians probably owe their lives to Floyd Frederickson, 16-year-old youth, who dragged them from the waters of Lolo creek last Sunday morning when the car in which the five were riding Read More

Old Water Works Painting

Old Water Works Mrs. F. A. Berger is Painting a Picture from a Photograph Mrs. T. A. Berger, who is attending the Chicago Art Institute, is now painting a picture of the Missoula water works in 1863. As an historical painting the picture will attract considerable attention when it arrives Read More