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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. ...
Poetry in Motion: Bronc Riding in Montana
Poetry in Motion: Bronc Riding in Montana At the end of our conversation, Ty said, “I've walked this path many times in my career and I'm smiling through the buck offs and mild pain because I know what being disciplined will lead to. Not to mention I'm thankful to be able to walk this path at nearly 51.” ...
The Grabow and Her Sisters: Livingston’s Historic Hotels
The Grabow and Her Sisters: Livingston’s Historic Hotels Many, about to embark on the wilderness, therefore chose to seek lodging in Livingston. H. F. Sanders wrote in his three-volume History of Montana (1913) that visitors "will usually find themselves directed to the Grabow Hotel, one of the finest hostelries in the state..." ...
Get To Know Fallon County
Get To Know Fallon County Cabin Creek today is home to the Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline gas compressor station. It lost its post office in 1931. Ollie, near the North Dakota line, is another railroad town—this time the Northern Pacific. Its post office was open from 1911 to 1955. ...
Driving the Teddy Through the Treasure State
Driving the Teddy Through the Treasure State Not only did the highway contribute to the growth of businesses along its route, it also fostered economic opportunities for towns and cities that were previously isolated. And, perhaps more importantly, the route became a symbol of America's commitment to connecting its diverse landscapes and fostering cooperation between states. ...
Dorothy Johnson: A Montana Treasure Who Needs To Be Remembered
Dorothy Johnson: A Montana Treasure Who Needs To Be Remembered When writing The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Johnson said, “I asked myself, what if one of these big bold gunmen who are having the traditional walkdown is not fearless, and what if he can’t even shoot. Then what have you got?” ...
The Kidnap and Ransom of Froggy Doo
The Kidnap and Ransom of Froggy Doo The perpetrators were never caught, and the victim was found a short time later, dismembered, his body parts strewn along a fence line outside of town, his decapitated head hanging from a post. ...
Charley Pride From the Helena Smelter to Country-Western Superstar
Charley Pride From the Helena Smelter to Country-Western Superstar Charley didn’t see the man’s death, but heard about it from other smelter workers. Told and retold, the man’s gruesome demise became a cautionary tale for the other workers, a bedtime fable for the unwary. ...
The Old Broke Rancher Asks: Is Offal Awful?
The Old Broke Rancher Asks: Is Offal Awful? But what did they taste like? Reader, they tasted like chicken nuggets. Even as I write, I am tempted to add something like "they taste, that is, like chicken nuggets if chicken nuggets were made of boogers." My dogs, they loved them! ...
Paradise By the Carton: The Legacy of the Marlboro Ranch
Paradise By the Carton: The Legacy of the Marlboro Ranch They longed for a way of life that no longer existed and in some cases never had, a Montana more mythical than Disney's Davey Crockett TV show and John Wayne matinees. They smoked their Marlboros and repeated their mantra: any day now I will get a call, and then I'll know it's my turn to go. ...
Fur Traders and Flying Saucers: What Did James Lumley Find Crashed in the Cadotte Pass?
Fur Traders and Flying Saucers: What Did James Lumley Find Crashed in the Cadotte Pass? Could it be that an aging fur trader really found something from another world planted in a mountain located,"in the neighborhood of the Cadotte Pass?" And if so, could it possibly still be there, undiscovered? ...
Get to Know a County: Sanders County
Get to Know a County: Sanders County Perhaps the most famous resident of Sanders County is David Thompson. Sent by the British Crown with the aim of beating Lewis and Clark to the Pacific, Thompson has been described as the most important geographer you’ve never heard of. He founded a trading post near the town that bears his name, Thompson Falls, the seat of Sanders County, and many other...
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