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
Missoula’s First Aviation School – 1927 – A. W. ‘Steve’ Stephenson Instructor Will Rogers Visits Missoula – Piloted Around Montana by Stephenson FIRST AVIATION SCHOOL IN MISSOULA IS TRAINING FLYERS That aviation will soon play an important part in Montana as it has begun to do in other states Read More
Reverend John N. Maclean versus Clarence Darrow The Anti-Saloon League Battles the Montana Commercial and Labor League (Dry versus Wet) – The Prohibition Controversy – 1916 The famous attorney Clarence Darrow visited Missoula in October of 1916, prior to the election in November. He was there for one purpose – Read More