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MontanaHistoricalSociety — 500 episodes
Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier
The Chief & the Celebration
“What Is a Country without Horses?”
Inventing the “Gun That Won the West”: Early Winchester Rifles
Call of the Mountains: Art of the Railroads
Montana’s First Licensed Physicians
Local History as a Tool of Economic Development
The Irish and Chinese in Montana
Chief Plenty Coups’ Public Feasts
The First Draft of History: Getting the Past into Print
The North Coast Limited and the “Nightcrawler”
The Woman Who Loved Mankind: The Life of a 20th-Century Crow Elder
Graven Images: the Bearcreek Cemetery and the Smith Mining Disaster
Reservation Life during the Great Depression
Fast Tracks to Paradise
Iron Horses and the Magic City
CTA: Doing Business by the Golden Rule
"There's More Going on in Billings at Midnight Than..."
Death and Burial among the First Montanans
Shooting Animals: Cameras, Guns, and Rethinking Nature, 1880–1920
The Wolves of Fergus County: Predators, Power, and Profits in Central Montana
Stories Behind the Brands
John Etchart: A Basque Leading Stockman in Northeastern Montana in the Early Twentieth Century
Chasing Florence Keyser: The Arrival of the Great Depression in Yellowstone National Park
Fred Inabnit, Mountaineer
Montana Memories of the Yellowstone Valley—Jennette Rasch
Montana Memories of the Yellowstone Valley—Trudie Porter Biggers
Montana Memories of the Yellowstone Valley—Kevin Kooistra
We Weren't Supposed to Feed Them, but We Did
Building a Place for Poultry in Montana: Harriette Cushman and Poultry Work in Montana
"No More War, No More Plague": The Spanish Influenza Pandemic Toll on Montana
Faith Healing, False Advertising, and Irregular Doctors
Eastern Montana's Eden: Irrigated Agriculture & the Lower Yellowstone Project
Treasure and Trouble: Living with Meander-land
Will James: The Consummate Storyteller
Kultivating Happy Kampers: KOA and Camping in the Late 20th Century
Yellowstone Trail - "One Good Long Road"
Montanans in the Great War
Fort Custer on the Big Horn
Special Places and Place Names
Histories Mysteries of the Billings Rimrocks
The Devil's Pocket
Robinson Park
Bear Creek Saloon
The Legend of Earl Durand
The Dude Rancher Lodge
Shelby's Fight
Helena's Fire of 1874
Montana's Sedition Laws
Frankenstein's Lab
Treat Your Horses Well
Little Cowboy Bar and Museum
Memorial Tree
Tommyknockers
Guardian of Garnet
"A Carved Monument Above the Water"
Labor & Industry
Montana State Orphan's Home
Cats
African Americans in Great Falls
Montana Collegiate Institute
2012 - 09 - 17SenatorThomasWalsh
Ninemile Remount Depot
Marie Montana
Education for All
Charles Bovey: Collector of Collections
Death of Thomas Francis Meagher
Glacier's Lake McDonald Lodge
Saving the Buffalo
Marquis de Morès
Pirates of the Midwest
Fort Benton's Hoo Doo Block
The Roman Theater
Lonesomehurst Cabin
Saved by the Bell
Ella May
Music and Pines
Bicycles
The Norden Bombsite
Coach Dogs
Smith Mine Disaster
Sarah Bickford Revisited
"May God Bless Her"
"Monster Lake"
Sculpture Gardens
A Disaster of Olympic Portions
Cold Case
The Drug Store
Last Spike
Les Bennett
Pierre Wibaux
Montana Deaconess School
Father Anthony Ravalli
Mastering Logistics
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
New Year's in 1913
Mamie's Bells
Daily Yellowstone Journal
Prairie Oysters (no, not those)
Homer Thomas
Christmas for Carnivores
White Crosses
Travels with Campbell
Turkey Mining
JFK Visits Montana
Romantic Encounter
The Speculator Mine Disaster
Grumblers Need Not Apply
Strange Bedfellows
Colter's Hell
Virginia City Mansion
Active Spirit
Cooking on the Hook
Story Block Story
Charity Dillon
Sedman House
Yellowstone Trail
Artis et Belli: The Great War and its Art
When the Beer Ran Dry
Montana and the Great War: What I Know Now
“Inciting Riot & Bloodshed”: Emma Goldman in Montana
Allotment and Fee-Patenting on the Flathead Indian Reservation, 1904–1934
Seed, Sedition, Suffrage, and Sobriety: Montana’s Extraordinary Session of 1918
Reading High Modernism in Hugo Eck’s Bozeman Deaconess Hospital
The Emergence of Modernism in Montana
Helen McAuslan, Modern Medium
The State of Montana History: Pt 3, Mary Murphy
The State of Montana History: Pt 4, Robert Swartout
The State of Montana History: Pt 5, Jeff Wiltse
The State of Montana History: Pt 2, Jon Axline
The State of Montana History: Pt 1, Jeff Malcomson
Gambling and the Great War
Robbing the Bootleggers: Prohibition-Era Crimes and Official Responses (or Lack Thereof)
Montana’s Great War of Words: Pt 3, Kurt Wetzel
Montana’s Great War of Words: Pt 2, Marian Holter Brod
Montana’s Great War of Words: Pt 1, Chuck Johnson
Serving a Community: The Parmly Billings Memorial Library during World War I
Words Transformed: How World War One Revolutionized Writing
Blue Ribbon Babies: Evaluating “Human Stock” in Montana’s “Better Baby Contests”
Landless Indians Living Off the Land and Reservation Farm Programs
WWI through Newspapers
War on the Red Plague: Montana’s Battle Against Venereal Disease
Montanans and the “Most Peculiar Disease”: The Flu Pandemic of 1918–1919
Unseen Enemy: Tuberculosis on Montana’s Indian Reservations
Women’s Work
Hazel Hunkins of Billings: Protesting at the White House, 1917–1919
The Great Wobbly Train Robbery of 1914
Guard Dogs and Dynamite: Convict Labor on the Yellowstone Trail, 1913–1917
The Long Road to Tribal Citizenship, 1879–1924
From Armistice to Aftermath: Post–World War I Montana
Oasis in a Time of Turmoil: Dupont’s Montana Experiment in Company Control
Conquering the Big Sky
The War Angelus Movement: Daily Prayers for Success in War
Over Here, Over There: The USFS during World War I
Montana’s Women Veterans of World War I
Doing Our Bit: Montana’s Home Front During the Great War
The Montana Council of Defense, County by County
“Are Undesirable”: The Sedition Act in Billings
Race and Ruination: 1917 and the Origins of Montana’s African American Exodus
Marching off to War: Montana’s African American Soldiers in World War I
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
It's For You!
Training a Dog
Scarred Trees
Aldridge
The Populist Party
Foul Play
Railroad Wars
"The Naked Edge"
Who Killed John Bozeman?
Champion
Fort Harrison
Magic Carpet
What's Up with Lime Kilns?
Anaconda City Limits
Van Orsdel Hall
Montana's Ringing Rocks
The Town that Gold Built
No Thanks, I'm Not Hungry
A Sense of Place
What's in a Name?
The Fairy Steps
Lavina
Fourth of July in Alder Gulch, 1865
House of Wong
A General's Best Friend(s)
A Hard Lesson
Showdown
Dr. Pocock
“We Had to Start Treating Them as Human Beings”
Together Forever
The Smith Mine Disaster
Jack Beecham
Sullivan Saddlery
Building Rumors
Gold Rush Doctors
True Grit
"Chinese" Ovens?
The Women's Mural
Fashion Police
Sam Lucas
Birdie (Bertie) Brown
What Can We Learn from World War I?
Medicine Rocks State Park
Hillside Letters
Montana's First Legal Hanging
Oscar Lewis
East Shore Road
Murder of Celestia Alice Earp
Ghost Horse
Prohibition, Prostitution, and Murder in Helena
Bessie Fisher
Nancy Wright's Sacrifice
Architecture at the University of Montana
Bill Stockton
Lewis & Clark vs Ursus Horribilis
Old Man Stormit
Garden City
Charlie Russell's Funeral
Buffalo Soldiers in Cuba
Frank Lloyd Wright
African Americans in the Civil War
A Nation Of Sportsmen: Thinking Historically about Hunting in the Postwar United States
National Historic Landmarks
First Female Prisoner
Hard Times for Homesteaders
Native American Roots
Fighting Fire
A Miner's Lunch
Castle in the Sky
Mining Camp New Year
Forbidden Pleasures
"Not in Our Town"
Daddy Reeves
Cooke City
Christmas Shopping
Little Rocky Mountains
Wild Horse Island
"The Seven-Story Hotel"
Dirty Laundry
Trail of Destruction
African American Nurses in the U.S. Army
The Medicine Tree
The Bitterroot
Conrad Mansion
Montana Americana Music: Boot Stomping in Big Sky Country
"It's Just the Wind"
Investing in a Boom Town: The Rise, and Demise, of a Self-Made Career
John Colter's Ghost
The Monogram
A Town Called Coulson
Salish Stories
Walkers Bar
Native Land
The Past and Future of Montana’s History: Now What?
The Past and Future of Montana’s History: 1950s-1990s
The Past and Future of Montana’s History: 1860s-1940s
Darby’s Tin Cup Creek Ostergrens
Vaccine Production in the Bitterroot Valley during World War II
A Mission to the Lamanites: Frank Warner, Mormons, and Religion at Fort Peck
Following Nicolas Point through Blackfeet Country
Capt. Mullan’s Lecture at Ft. Owen on the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Major John Owen: From Walla Walla to Fort Benton and Beyond
Story of a Madam, “Mammy” Clara Sarah Smith
Ponies and Passes: Lewis and Clark through the Bitterroot in Sept. 1805
Lost Trail Descent into Darby
Nathaniel Wyeth and the Salish: Two Weeks in the Bitterroot Valley in 1833
The Flint Creek and Bitterroot Valleys in the Mountain Man Era, 1825–1865
The Salish and the Bitterroot
Storied Waters: Native American Folklore at Hot Springs in the Bitterroot Valley
Jeannette Rankin, “America’s Conscience”
Major Charles Rawn
Stories of the Bitterroot Stock Farm and the Daly Women Who Ran It
To the Bitter End: The 10th and 20th Engineers Forestry During WWI
Apples, Optimism, and Frank Lloyd Wright in the Bitterroot
To Bee or Not to Bee
Following the Nez Perce Trail
Logging and Lobbying in the Gilded Age, 1882–1917
Bitterroot National Forest: The Early Years, 1897–1945
The Clear-Cut Controversy: The Bitterroot and the Reshaping of National Forest Service Policy
Recent Research, Emerging Scholars: Guthrie Meeker
The Bitterroot: From John Birch to the Tea Party
Recent Research, Emerging Scholars: Jimi DelDuca
Recent Research, Emerging Scholars: Micaela Young
Women Reformers
Aunt Kitty: Mother of the Postulants
Place Among the Displaced: Envisioning Preservation of a Métis Settlement in Montana
Montana Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
Train Robbery
Sleeping Child Hot Springs
Edgar S. Paxson
Helena's Beattie Park
Paint Your Wagon
An Errant Ferry
Helena's Paul Revere
Ralph DeCamp
Greenough Mansion
"Civilizing" the Natives
Henry Plummer
Still Waters
Cannibals!
"Laugh Kills Lonesome"
Ledger Art
Making Your Own News
Scientists at Work
Marcus Daly's Horses
Ming Opera House
Borden's Hotel
Famished!
A.J. Gibson
The Circus Comes to Kalispell
The Greening of the Capitol City
Butte's House of Mystery
Comanche
Madame Mustache
Birth of a Symbol
Evelyn Cameron Speaks
John L. Clarke
White Knuckles
A Spectral Legacy
Ultimate Service
Still Unidentified
Visions and Native Wisdom in the Writings of Frank Bird Linderman
Lewis and Clark among the Nez Perce: Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu
Montana's First State Park
The Bishop of All Outdoors
Keeping an Eye on the Sky
Central High School
Witness to Spirit: My Life with Cowboys, Mozart & Indians
Sedition!
Healy’s West: The Life and Times of John J. Healy
The Broadwater Hotel
"Driving the Golden Spike"
Desperate Parents
Sherman's Castle
A Box of Cats
E. C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott: The Texas Trail and the Open Range
Mingo Sanders
Stagecoach Etiquette
Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
Boneyard
The Big Horn Gun
Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre
The Gordon Family
Accidental Settlers
Helena's Placer Hotel
Disaster Bend
How to Spread Disease
Buck to the Rescue
Hard Winter
Deadly Cargo
Letters Home from Montanans at War
Helena's Sixth Ward
Turkey Pete
Beaver Creek Park
Sparing the Children
Bootlegging 101, continued
Just say "la-ray"
Bootlegging 101
Disaster Averted
Allen Livery and Stables
Virginia City's Silent Sisters
The Dinosaur Trail
Highway Archaeology
Building the Montana State Capitol
The Other C. Wamsley House
There is Power In a Union
Destination: Laurel
Cemetery Island
The National Register of Historic Places
The Red Light Saloon
Superstitions for the New Year
Butte's First Christmas
Christmas at the Movies, 1935
A Night to Remember
Dolls: More than Just Toys
Copper King Mansion
Home of Peace
Nevada City
Robber's Roost
Sky King
The Hagan Site
The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West
Thanksgiving in Bannack, 1863
Montana Territory's first official Thanksgiving
Homicide in Territorial Montana: A Violent Frontier?
Cinnabar's Last Hurrah
Helena's Women's Mural
Robert Gould Shaw
Egg Mountain
Harry and Adelaide: A Montana-Yellowstone Love Story
Women Get the Vote
Anaconda Saddle Club
George Ahern, From Montana Explorer to Imperial Forester
A Half-Century of Nursing Narratives in Butte, Montana, 1900–1950
Electronics Research Laboratory: An Oral History of Electrical Engineering in Montana
How We Fought
Anatomy of a Lynching
Bozeman’s Water Works: Topography, Control, and Politics
“Full of Life and Energy”: Electricity in Yellowstone National Park
Mars and the Malleable West
Green Museums Waking up the World
Willow Creek Methodist Church and Community History
What’s in a Name?: Understanding the “Shoo Fly” Myth
Blazing through Yellowstone: Trail Blazes of Yellowstone and Montana
History Between the Lines: Epistolary Gems from the Montana Historical Society Archives
Wheeling through Yellowstone: A History of Early Bicycling in the First National Park, 1883–1898
Steamship Travel on Yellowstone Lake
Real Voices from the Montana Extension Service
Taming Big Sky Country: A Short Overview of Montana’s Early Roads
North to the Gold Fields on the Montana Trail
Gateway to Yellowstone: The Raucous Town of Cinnabar on the Montana Frontier
Bluetongue, Bison Diplomacy, and the Lakota Taking of the Powder River, 1858–1868
Bozeman’s Masonic Lodge No. 18
The Story of Nelson Story
Mapping Métis: Indigenous Knowledge on the 49th Parallel
“The Inspiration of a New Land”: The Montana Years of Ina E. Gittings, 1914–1918
Montana Baseball History, Part I
Montana Baseball History, Part II
Beef Fudge, Pork Cake, and Huckleberry Pie
Montana’s Most Unexpected Treasure
Summoning the Dead in the West
Town and Gown: MSU and the Development of Bozeman
Thirteen Steps
A Ghost in the Attic
A Grave Situation
Superfish
You say Rimini, I say Rimini
Hellgate Canyon
Fanny Sperry Steele
Virginia Geiger Kenyon
Reed & Bowles Trading Post
Magnificent Journey
Brush Lake
A Rare Book
Yellowstone Summers: Touring with the Wylie Camping Company
The Meade Saga
The Mail Must Get Through!
Three Ringlings in Montana: Circus Trains to Cattle Ranches
Pioneers in Preservation
Young Love Endures
There Will Be Oil
The Fate of Jack Slade
"We Came Here to Make a Pile"
The Magruder Incident
Helena's Central Park
In Their Own Words: Translating Documents from Montana's Chinese Community
Without a Paddle
A Valuable Lesson
Gold, Sapphires, and Dams
Norman Fox: The Life and Times of the Montana Western Author
Bad Parenting
Olive Warren McDaniels
China Gulch
Annie Morgan
Literary Butte: A History in Novels and Film
Ore Train
Dynamite Dog
From the Ground Up: Montana Women and Agriculture
Dangerous Games
Unruffled
The Disastrous 1964 Flood in Central Montana
Frenchtown's Heritage
Bannack's Masonic Lodge
C.M. Russell: Heritage and Legacy
Love Story
All Night Party!
Kid Gloves and Brass Knuckles: Nancy Cooper Russell speaks
The Moss Mansion
The Great Depression in Plentywood
Frank Lloyd Wright In Montana
A Sad Time in Montana Aviation
A Worm in the Bath?
Reimagining Main Street: Revitalization and Tourism's Role in Montana
It's All a Facade
The Greenough Sisters
Mossmain: Montana's Metropolis that Never Was
How Deer Lodge Got Its Name
"The Best School West of the Mississippi"
Colter Controversies
Neihart Lives On
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Fort Yellowstone
The Little Chicago of the West
Montana's Naval Namesakes
The Lee Metcalf Photograph and Film Collection Project
"If These Walls Could Talk"
The Montana Collegiate Institute
The Iron Riders
Fun and Games in Virginia City
Ghost Towns of the Rockies
Evelyn Cameron, Trailblazer
The Rise of Chain Stores
A Century of Keeping Montanans on the Road
Ancient Writings
Kidnapped!
Laundry Day
Drouillard the Dashing
Billings' Ambitious History
The Montana Central Railway