Boy Band of 50 Years Ago Recalled

Boy Band’s 1st Pay Job At Quigley – 1896 Band of 50 Years Ago Recalled Five Missoula men of today were members of a boys’ band which embarked on its first pay job for the Fourth of July celebration at Quigley 50 years ago. The boys of that year – Read More

Donald Klepper’s Nostalgic Letter

Let’s preserve tradition, not mourn its passing By Don Klepper What has been defined as progress and part of the new way has resulted in the destruction of part of the history of Missoula. Block by block, building by building, history and tradition departs. The prevalent operative today is that Read More

Carl T. Seely – Longtime Missoula Newspaperman and Fisherman

Missoula Man Writes Letter To A Friend In Nebraska Carl T. Seeley in a recent letter to the Madison, Nebraska, Star, gives the people of that section of the country some idea of what Missoula is and what can be found here and in the vicinity. He says: I always Read More

When Missoula Wasn’t Too Pretty – An Amazonian War – 1893

When Missoula Wasn’t Too Pretty An Amazonian War The Sallys of Our Alleys Have a Little Time All to Themselves They fit an fit, till each was sore, And all around was kivered with gore. A couple of “kept ladies,” the windows of whose rooms look out upon the classic Read More

Kid Curry Seen in Elk City According to a Lumberjack – 1903

Kid Curry Seen in Elk City According to a Lumberjack C. A. Barnes, who arrived home Friday from a trip as far west as Spokane, tells of meeting a man from Elk City, Idaho, who claims to have seen Kid Curry in Elk City last Saturday night. Mr. Barnes went Read More

Bob Marshall Lectures & Shows Slides at U of M on Artic Village

Large Audience Hears Marshall Speak on Artic Former Missoula Man Illustrates Lecture With Many Colored Slides “In the Koyukuk river drainage, northernmost tributary of the Yukon river, is 15,000 square miles of country north of the Artic circle. It is as big as the combined areas of Massachusetts and New Read More

‘Blue Duck’ of “Lonesome Dove” In Missoula – 1972

Lonesome Dove’s ‘Blue Duck’ In Missoula – 1972 Frederic Forrest – Actor in Missoula for film “When The Legends Die” Actor Contends Role Fair to Indians Tom Ellerhoff – Missoulian Staff Writer Fredrick Forrest is an actor who thinks the film world’s conscience goes beyond box office sales. Forrest was Read More

Al Jolson Great Hit With Capacity House – 1917

Al Jolson Great Hit With Capacity House Bright Winter Garden Offering Delights Large Missoula Audience. Show Is Remarkable Musical Comedy Has Both Harmony and Wit, An Unusual Circumstance Al Jolson, who has no other rival in black face than that real article, Bert Williams, introduced himself – and five score Read More

1st Boy Scouts Camp at Seeley Lake – 1917

First Boy Scouts at Seeley Lake – 1917   Boy Scouts Will Take Outing On Seeley Lake E. E. Hubert To Have Charge of the First Camp in Mountains To Last Seven Days Youths to Get Instruction in Woodcraft and Fire Protection Plans for the first Boy Scout camp to Read More