“Top o’ Deep” Gold and the “year of our – snow – 1870” The ‘latest prospects’ from The New Northwest newspaper – Deer Lodge, Mt. Feb. 18, 1870. [A little introduction – Elk Creek, in the Blackfoot drainage, is found near what is now Greenough, Mt. Top o’ Deep is Read More
Ovando versus A. L. Stone – Mr. Jakway’s liver is ashiver – 1914 THE NEWSPAPER AND THE NEWS Editor, Missoulian – I have read with great interest during the winter the statements of various persons in your columns, regarding the rigorous climate of the Ovando country – how W. R. Read More
One of the reasons for starting this website was that I didn’t have any place to store or retain the links, articles and information that I keep finding while reading about the history of the Missoula area. I’ve occasionally spent hours trying to retrace information that I neglected to keep. Read More
9/11/2018 – Along with my son, Ben, I just spent a day at Florence, Idaho, the site of fantastic gold prospecting activity in the early 1860’s. It is now an overgrown, forlorn landscape, submitting inexorably to nature’s power. Many who came to Bannack, Virginia City, and Alder Gulch (Mt. Territory) Read More
Snipehunter Adds Mouthorgan To Candle Forestry School Men Have a Great Hunt in Big Blackfoot Valley Wilds John (Oliver D.) Layton, president, organizer and membership of the Society for the Inculcation of Religious Aspiration Upon Snipes, returned yesterday from the Blackfoot, where he conducted a thorough survey of the conditions Read More
Wilma Plunge To Close Closing of the Wilma plunge May 18 was announced Thursday by R. W. Schofield, proprietor. While the pool is closing before the end of the school term, students at the high school receiving instruction there will be accorded credit. Mr. Schofield learned from Principal G. A. Read More
Orchard Homes Frenzy Johnston and Orton Hold Reunion Here When Sheriff P. F. Johnston of Sanders county came to the city from Thompson Falls Tuesday afternoon he had a brief reunion with an old friend, Pete Orton. The renewed acquaintance of years ago when they operated a ranch together in Read More
Ode To West Front – by Deane Jones When the Thunderbird Bar closed on West Front Street early this month, it was more than the closing of another bar. For the Thunderbird was the successor to the old Hawthorne Club, which, if it could talk, could have revealed more secrets Read More
Life In The Camps Is Strenuous An Idaho Officer Tells About The Current Of Events At Taft. Big Deputy Sheriff Dennis, who looks after the law and order of the Milwaukee construction work on the Idaho side of the line from the tunnel at St. Paul pass to the St. Read More
The Engineering and Mining Journal – July 13, 1901 Western Montana Placer Mining Company – This company is working the Bessie M. dredger near Martina*. The machinery is supported on a double boat 70 by 30 ft. in size, and has a capacity of 2,000 cu. yds. In 24 hours. Read More