Apostle of the West – Rev. Peter John DeSmet

This article appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue.   Apostle of the West The Rev. Peter John DeSmet, often called the Apostle of the West, in bringing the word of God to the Salish Indians paved the way for white settlement of western Montana. He was born at Temonde, East Read More

Monkeying with the Mocking Bird and Sweet Hallie – 1900

  Sam’s Troubles Visited Madame Goldsmith and Received a Beating The article below appeared in The Missoulian on November 29, 1900: 29 Nov 1900, 3 – The Missoulian at Newspapers.com “Ha yust het ma once pretty hard, yudge,” said Sam Stromberg to Justice Hayes in asking for a warrant for Read More

A Radio For Oscar Willett – An Esteemed Leper

Radio Set Installed On Willett’s Ranch Missoula People Give Machine to Montana’s Only Leper and Wife Former Senator O. G. Willett, Montana’s only leper, who is confined with his wife on their ranch west of Alberton, has been placed in communication with the outside world by means of a radio-receiving Read More

Slashed to the Bone – In Hell’s Half Acre

A Dusky Denizen of Hell’s Half Acre Wields a Razor. Hell’s Half Acre flowed with human blood this morning shortly after 1 o’clock. As a result Mike Lahey of Nine Mile may lose his left arm from a slash from a razor which was wielded by a dusky denizen named Read More

Mansions for Millionaires – Prayers for a Floater – 1891

Mansions for Millionaires The stately and imposing mansion of Hon. Hiram Knowles, located near the Bitter Root track is completed and will be occupied by the gentleman and his family, about the first of July. The beautiful residence of Mr. E. L. Bonner, also on the south side, now in Read More

Great Falls Hunters Vanish In Bitterroot

Two Hunters Missing – November 1987 Many people in Montana were curious and uneasy when two Great Falls hunters disappeared in November of 1987. The hunters were known to be on their way to hunt in the Bitterroot valley on Friday the 13th.; now they had vanished. While lost hunters Read More

George Rony – Russian Filmmaker with a Message

Russian Adventurer To Address Executives Club From early childhood first-hand knowledge of the horrors of revolution and wars, of misery and starvation, of extensive traveling and dangerous adventures, has been the lot of George J. Rony, Russian-born motion picture producer, who is to talk before the Missoula Executives club on Read More

Medill McCormick – Missoula Riverbank Visionary – 1913

Medill McCormick of Chicago, well-known nationally as a progressive leader and a newspaperman, has been looking Missoula over for a couple of days, while he has been outfitting for a camping trip in the upper Blackfoot country, for which region he will start this morning. Speaking of local conditions, Mr. Read More

Buffalo, Butch Cassidy, Vigilantes by George C. Streeter

BUFFALO, BUTCH CASSIDY, VIGILANTES [Interview by Maurice Howe – WPA director – Utah]   George C. Streeter of Ogden, Utah, related: “I was born somewhere in Illinois, in 1867, town or county unknown, and from there my folks went to Missouri and then out to Nebraska. My father, who was Read More

“Crazy Joe” – A Montana Cowboy Story by “Pink” Simms

Crazy Joe By “Pink” Simms AS I was awaiting my turn at a service station in Whitehall, Montana, about three years ago I heard a man talking in a loud tone. His voice seemed vaguely familiar, and I looked to see who it was. I saw a medium-sized man of Read More