Mabel (Lindstadt) Campbell – Lady of action

  Mrs. Mabel (Lindstadt) Campbell   The biography below appears in Montana – Its Story and Biography Vol. 2 by Tom Stout, published in 1921.   It should be noted that Mrs. Campbell presided over the office of Missoula County Superintendent of Schools during our involvement in W.W. 1, which Read More

Martha J. DeMers by Chris Sorensen

  The article below, by Chris Sorensen, is from the National Smokejumper Association website:     Martha J. DeMers   The article below is from the National Smokejumper Association website 1918 – 2003 MISSOULA – Martha J. DeMers was born Martha Elizabeth Jenkins on July 26, 1918 in Hysham to Read More

‘I Make The Rounds, 1938’ by Lois Flansburg Haaglund

The article below is a chapter from Tough, Willing, and Able by Lois Flansburg Haaglund, published in 1997 by Mountain Press Publishing Company of Missoula, Montana.  Lois is a native Montanan who grew up in Clinton, Montana during the great depression era. She graduated from St. Patrick School of Nursing Read More

Emma Lommasson – University of Montana Icon

Emma Lommasson Long ago this writer was given assistance by Emma Lommasson when guidance was not so easy to get at U of M. I can attest to the accuracy of the numerous testimonies that have been given for her.  She is a credit to the University of Montana and Read More

Audra Browman – Missoula Historian

Biographical History Audra Arnold Browman was born to Leila Beeman and Harold DeForest Arnold on May 16, 1909 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She was born on the family farm in the same bed as Lucy Stone, a well-known suffragette and Browman’s great-great-aunt. Browman received her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke, her Read More

The Kindness of a Stranger – 1900

HEART OF A TRUE WOMAN A Very Pretty Story of the Kindness of an Actress             Coming toward Butte from Seattle the other night on the train there was a baby and its mother. All the passengers in this particular were well aware of its presence. The mother was a Read More

The “sublime” Indians of Mary Curtis Knowles

Life in Montana in the Seventies By Mary Curtis Knowles When I first came to Montana in the early seventies, the roughest and most dangerous elements which threatened the building of a more civilized social structure, had been eliminated. “The Vigilantes” had done their work and given place to the Read More