Day of the Cat Lion livens up South 11th St. neighborhood By Michael Moore of the Missoulian Katie Olson thought she’d seen it all in her six decades of living in the 1500 block of South 11th Street West, but that was before the mountain lion curled up in the Read More
Mexican Nationals – 1943 “CREAM OF THE CROP” Editor, The Missoulian: “Viva los Estados Unidos de America! Viva los Estados Unidos de Mexico! Unidos por la Victoria! Long live the United States of America! Long live the United States of Mexico! United for Victory!” This is the handwriting in chalk Read More
An Unprecedented Snow Fall The snowfall in this city and vicinity in the last few days has exceeded that of any other year since 1888. The ground is covered with over 20 inches on the south flats while in town the snow is fully 16 inches deep. Practically all the Read More
A Short Blue Mountain Plinking Story – There You Go Tom! Here’s a short, but mostly true, Blue Mountain story. As you may know, Blue Mtn was once a target range. Military people (and civilians) used it for a practice range and shot off ordinance there, an activity that certainly Read More
A Montana Cowboy – Lynched in Alaska – 1898 The sorry news of the summary lynching of M. F. Tanner in Valdez, Alaska came hard to residents of Montana in February of 1898. Known as “Montana Cowboy”, Tanner killed two of his campmates while they sat defenseless in their tent, Read More
Tots Take A Long Walk. Seven and Five Year Old Go From Missoula to Deep Creek The two motherless little children of Mike Kruntzberger [Krenzberger], a placer miner of the Top O’ Deep, aged seven and five years, are to be congratulated upon their nerve, says the Philipsburg Call. The Read More
Death In The Mountains. James McArrison Killed on the Sierra Lode. On the crest of the mountain between Bear and Elk, there is a quartz lead called the “Sierra,” owned by Mr. Henry Grant. There is a tunnel on it running along on the lead which has a dip of Read More
Hiding in Plain Sight: St Paul A.M.E. Church & Missoula’s Forgotten Black History — UPDATED Greg Martin Follow Nov 29, 2018 · 30 min read “I don’t think I’ve ever heard that church so quiet.” Missoulian front page headline on July 30, 1923 By 1923, Missoula’s Read More
Some Butte, Mt. connections Here’s an interesting bit of my Montana family history. My mother was born in Butte in 1917. Her Grandmother, Delpha Terry Davis, was born in Utah and lived for a time in and around Butte (Glendale & Melrose), before coming to Missoula. Parshall E. White was Read More
“Old Man” Chabot – spending his last days in Missoula’s Rattlesnake Poor House Below are two separate Missoulian articles about an old gentleman who lived in Missoula about 100 years ago. They were written a few years apart. Mr. Chabot may have been close to 100 years old at that Read More