Sheridan Gibney – Screenwriter

Sheridan Gibney died in Missoula in 1988. He was a victim of the hysteria that affected many Hollywood writers in the 1950’s. Below are links to some information about him. https://consecratedeminence.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/an-american-in-paris-sheridan-gibney-1925/ https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma16.html https://blogs.ats.amherst.edu/engl-415-1112f-rgalluzzi12/2011/11/11/jack-warner-sells-sheridan-gibney-down-the-river/

Alfredo and Ann Marie D’Orazi Cipolato

Alfredo and Ann Marie Cipolato Anyone from Missoula probably remembers Cipolato’s The Broadway Market.  It became a Missoula institution over the years and so did its proprietors, Alfredo and Ann Marie Cipolato. Their story would require more space than is available here; however, articles from some of the links below Read More

Capt. Richard Ogg – Hero Pan Am pilot in 1956 crash

Pilot Richard Ogg was credited with saving the lives of all 31 passengers aboard his Pan American Stratocruiser as it crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Ogg was a U of M graduate and learned to fly at Johnson Flying Service in Missoula. See link below for articles about Ogg’s crash. Read More

Sam Elder’s Specialized Horseshoeing Service on West Main

  (Sam Elder’s) Specialized Horseshoeing Service on West Main   Missoula’s first specialized horseshoeing shop opened at 218 W. Main St. in 1896.   The shop was the realization of Sam Elder’s dreams of designing horseshoes. The ordinary work horse got a shoe out of a keg which came from Read More

“Short Time in the City – Settle All Your Troubles” – 1900

  “Short Time in the City – Settle All Your Troubles”   Mme, Geyser, the Great Clairvoyant, Palmist and Card Reader   Tells all about courtship, love, marriages, trouble, journeys, changes, work and business. She can answer any secret question appertaining to business, love, or anything else. See her and Read More

William Wyman Andrus – Cardiologist

William Wyman Andrus William Wyman Andrus “Wyman”, age 87, of Miles City Montana, passed away peacefully on December 27th, 2014, at his home in Surprise, Arizona. Wyman was born June 10, 1927 in Miles City, Montana to Edson and Genevieve Andrus. While in High School Wyman was a quarterback on Read More

3 Tragic Missoulians – Maclean, Kelly & Ronan

Following is a short article from the MCHS student newspaper ‘The Konah’ of September, 1920. It occurred under the section labeled BUBBLES which had a light-hearted theme:   An Oversight Mr. Maclean: Why’ you’ve got a lump on your head. Have you been fighting again? Paul M: Fighting? Not me! Mr. Read More

3 Montana fugitives -“Weaver Fever” by Timothy Egen – The N.Y. Times 1995

In 1995 three different fugitive incidents were wreaking havoc in Montana. Author Tim Egen concentrated on the situation in his N.Y. Times article in 1995. Events in Oregon this winter are not totally unusual. A link to Egen’s article appears below: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/17/us/fugitives-gain-respite-as-authorities-weigh-moves.html An interview with the Darby fugitive, Calvin Greenup, by David Neiwert, Read More

Eddie Batchelder – Founder of Eddie’s Club

  I had the privilege of working with Eddie Batchelder for a time at the U.S. Post Office in Missoula. He was a character. You could generally count on him smiling or laughing almost all of the time. He had a limp by the time I knew him, which could Read More

Edwin Theodore Mertz – Biochemist, pianist, fisherman

Below is a link to a biography of  Edwin T. Mertz by John Halver: http://www.nap.edu/read/11172/chapter/12