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Get To Know A County: Rosebud
Get To Know A County: Rosebud Roughly halfway between Lame Deer and Colstrip, the Deer Medicine Rocks are a National Historic Landmark, located on private property with no public access. The landmark memorializes the site where Lakota Chief Sitting Bull had a vision foretelling his success over the U.S. 7th Cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer. ...
Get To Know Fergus County
Get To Know Fergus County Located at the geographical center of the state of Montana, Fergus County was formed on March 12, 1885, with land taken from Meagher and Chouteau Counties. James Fergus, a territorial delegate from Meagher County, proposed the new county, and it was named for him. ...
Montana’s Most Legendary Apex Predator: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Montana’s Most Legendary Apex Predator: Tyrannosaurus Rex The holotype for T. rex, which is the name-bearing representative of that species, was discovered near Haxby, an old post office north of Jordan, Montana. ...
Richard Hugo Reminds Us
Richard Hugo Reminds Us Hugo’s a bulldog. Horseshoe balding. Steel squint. Open collar shirt. A sports jacket strains across the shoulders of this former semi-pro baseball catcher. He’s gruff but with self-deprecating humor and genuine laughs. He listens. More than that, he senses. Feels. Searches for the heart of this moment. ...
Bound in Blood: The Freemasons and the Vigilantes
Bound in Blood: The Freemasons and the Vigilantes Eventually, the escalating violence, particularly in Helena, became so overwhelming that newspaper editor Robert Fisk famously called for stemming the tide of recent vigilante terror by returning to "decent ordinary lynching." ...
Lewistown's Forgotten Air Base
Lewistown's Forgotten Air Base t was believed that the Montana airspace, terrain, barometric pressure, and winter temperatures would replicate what air crews might expect over Germany. On base, though, the barracks and other assorted operational buildings, erected quickly, lacked adequate insulation. ...
“Buffalo Soldier Wheelmen” – The 25th Infantry Regiment of Fort Missoula
“Buffalo Soldier Wheelmen” – The 25th Infantry Regiment of Fort Missoula The second, longer trip was a roundtrip to Yellowstone National Park. Supposedly they now had “puncture-proof” tires. In addition to the necessary provisions, each rider carried either a 10-pound rifle or a revolver and each had a 30-round cartridge belt and half of a tent. ...
Emerald Isle to Big Sky Country: the Ancient Irish Sport of Hurling Takes Root in Montana
Emerald Isle to Big Sky Country: the Ancient Irish Sport of Hurling Takes Root in Montana The group, a conglomeration of athletes primarily hailing from Butte and Missoula, were members of local hurling teams—and they were clearly a crowd favorite. ...
Isle of Books Presents Last Best Books Fall 2024: "Catastrophe at Custer Creek," "Disturbing the sleeping Buffalo," and "Horse Thievery For Glory, Horse Thievery For Profit"
Isle of Books Presents Last Best Books Fall 2024: "Catastrophe at Custer Creek," "Disturbing the sleeping Buffalo," and "Horse Thievery For Glory, Horse Thievery For Profit" Thompson does Montana a service by finding stories about an underattended Native chief, the burial of a child in Missoula, and more. Each is fascinating, and most are stories you haven't heard before. ...
Montana Media: the Ballad of Little Jo and Revisioning the West
Montana Media: the Ballad of Little Jo and Revisioning the West The Ballad of Little Jo arrived right at the moment when the Western re-emerged after a protracted period of stagnation back into popular appeal. Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves (1990) and Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992) both won the Best Picture Academy Award for their respective years of release. ...
The Old Broke Rancher on How to Stop Hiking and Relax Already
The Old Broke Rancher on How to Stop Hiking and Relax Already My wife seethes. "How can you sit there like that?" It's really very easy, I tell her. If you do it right, the first part to hit the chair should be your butt. ...
Why I Believe in Bigfoot
Why I Believe in Bigfoot Highly unusual sounds recorded near Ennis (MT) have strikingly similar characteristics to those captured in the Sierra Nevada range (CA) in the early ’70s. Witnesses all describe the overwhelmingly magnitude and power of these sounds. ...
For the Birds: Passion and Happiness in the Mission Valley
For the Birds: Passion and Happiness in the Mission Valley John has become a local celebrity after ushering nearly 10,000 students through his passion project. When walking into a bar recently a middle-aged man pointed a figure finger at him asking if he was the “bird guy.” ...
Haunted Hotels of Southwest Montana
Haunted Hotels of Southwest Montana Suddenly and without explanation, he discovered a solitary elk steak on the hallway floor. Then another here. Another couple there. It was 6 or 8 elk steaks all told, and Lee still can't figure out who, or what, is responsible for moving them. ...
Roadtrip to Dillon and the Andrus Hotel
Roadtrip to Dillon and the Andrus Hotel Our room was the Carnegie Suite, which, in addition to a handsome kitchen, living room, and two full bathrooms (one featuring a luxurious walk-in shower), also featured two bedrooms, each with its own television. ...
Woman Chief and Running Eagle: Nineteenth-Century Women Warriors of the Apsáalooke (Crow), Piikáni (Piegan Blackfeet), and other Plains Tribes indigenous to Montana
Woman Chief and Running Eagle: Nineteenth-Century Women Warriors of the Apsáalooke (Crow), Piikáni (Piegan Blackfeet), and other Plains Tribes indigenous to Montana The preponderance of evidence suggests that Pitamakan rose to prominence during the terminal period of intertribal warfare, i.e., the late 1870s. She received a vision, one that foretold success in battle, in a cave near the waterfall in Glacier National Park that now bears her name. ...
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