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 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
Montana’s White Buffalo – Old and New Famous Buffalo Dies Big Medicine is dead. The venerable patriarch of the herd of buffalo at the National Bison Range passed into the Great Beyond Tuesday morning. He was 26 years and three months old when he died in the exhibition pasture Read More
He Had A Roll To Pay A Fine J. E. White Flashes Thousand Dollar Bills. For All That He Is A Cheap Guy Busiest Day Police Court Has Had for Many Months – Many Offenders There was a little incident transpired in the police court yesterday that has created an Read More
How first booze came to the state R. F. Welliver, Pioneer, Is Writer of Interesting Tale of Old Days. R. F. Welliver, father of Mrs. Maude Their, of 646 University avenue, is a pioneer in Montana, having lived in the Treasure state for 30 years. In connection with the passing Read More
Waite Phillips – Incognito Visitor Millionaire Philanthropist Leaves After “Traveling Old Trail” Here [1943] Waite Phillips millionaire oil man and philanthropist, who had been in Missoula and Western Montana on a brief vacation trip, left the city on the North Coast Limited Thursday for the East. Mr. Phillips was a Read More
Former Vice President Fairbanks Speaks in Missoula – 1916 Charles W. Fairbanks was a senator from Indiana and the vice president under Republican Theodore Roosevelt – 1905 to 1909. As vice president he actually worked against some of Roosevelt’s policies. Roosevelt did not support him in the next presidential campaign, Read More
Montana’s Black Gold – Yellowstone Pipeline & Missoula’s Oil Terminal – 1954 The Carter Oil Company opened its ¼ million-dollar Missoula Oil Terminal in 1954. Oil companies built a 537-mile, 10-inch pipeline from Billings to Spokane, Washington. The pipeline yearly carried 16 million gallons of oil products from Laurel and Read More
Tales and Secrets of Montana Rum-Running in the 1920’s The Good Old Daze by Al Darr. “It looks like Missoula has a bar for every other citizen,” observed an abstemious tourist from the Midwest the other day. He then confessed that drinking in his town was largely unadvertised and that Read More
An Introduction to John Work – Early Montana Explorer by Paul C. Phillips (U of M Historian) John Work (Written for The Associated Press by Paul C. Phillips, History Department, University of Montana.) John Work has given us the most extensive record of the fur trade in Montana. He was Read More