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
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 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” 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 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
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
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
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
Below is a link to a biography of Edwin T. Mertz by John Halver: http://www.nap.edu/read/11172/chapter/12
Below is a link to an article by reporter Vince Devlin that appeared in the Missoulian September 30, 2007. McDonald began fighting forest fires when barely in his teens and began smoke jumping out of Missoula after graduating high school in St. Ignatius. He attended school in Dillon, Montana where he Read More