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1

Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier

2

The Chief & the Celebration

3

“What Is a Country without Horses?”

4

Inventing the “Gun That Won the West”: Early Winchester Rifles

5

Call of the Mountains: Art of the Railroads

6

Montana’s First Licensed Physicians

7

Local History as a Tool of Economic Development

8

The Irish and Chinese in Montana

9

Chief Plenty Coups’ Public Feasts

10

The First Draft of History: Getting the Past into Print

11

The North Coast Limited and the “Night­crawler”

12

The Woman Who Loved Mankind: The Life of a 20th-Century Crow Elder

13

Graven Images: the Bearcreek Cemetery and the Smith Mining Disaster

14

Reservation Life during the Great Depression

15

Fast Tracks to Paradise

16

Iron Horses and the Magic City

17

CTA: Doing Business by the Golden Rule

18

"There's More Going on in Billings at Midnight Than..."

19

Death and Burial among the First Montanans

20

Shooting Animals: Cameras, Guns, and Rethinking Nature, 1880–1920

21

The Wolves of Fergus County: Predators, Power, and Profits in Central Montana

22

Stories Behind the Brands

23

John Etchart: A Basque Leading Stockman in Northeastern Montana in the Early Twentieth Century

24

Chasing Florence Keyser: The Arrival of the Great Depression in Yellowstone National Park

25

Fred Inabnit, Mountaineer

26

Montana Memories of the Yellowstone Valley—Jennette Rasch

27

Montana Memories of the Yellowstone Valley—Trudie Porter Biggers

28

Montana Memories of the Yellowstone Valley—Kevin Kooistra

29

We Weren't Supposed to Feed Them, but We Did

30

Building a Place for Poultry in Montana: Harriette Cushman and Poultry Work in Montana

31

"No More War, No More Plague": The Spanish Influenza Pandemic Toll on Montana

32

Faith Healing, False Advertising, and Irregular Doctors

33

Eastern Montana's Eden: Irrigated Agriculture & the Lower Yellowstone Project

34

Treasure and Trouble: Living with Meander-land

35

Will James: The Consummate Storyteller

36

Kultivating Happy Kampers: KOA and Camping in the Late 20th Century

37

Yellowstone Trail - "One Good Long Road"

38

Montanans in the Great War

39

Fort Custer on the Big Horn

40

Special Places and Place Names

41

Histories Mysteries of the Billings Rimrocks

42

The Devil's Pocket

43

Robinson Park

44

Bear Creek Saloon

45

The Legend of Earl Durand

46

The Dude Rancher Lodge

47

Shelby's Fight

48

Helena's Fire of 1874

49

Montana's Sedition Laws

50

Frankenstein's Lab

51

Treat Your Horses Well

52

Little Cowboy Bar and Museum

53

Memorial Tree

54

Tommyknockers

55

Guardian of Garnet

56

"A Carved Monument Above the Water"

57

Labor & Industry

58

Montana State Orphan's Home

59

Cats

60

African Americans in Great Falls

61

Montana Collegiate Institute

62

2012 - 09 - 17SenatorThomasWalsh

63

Ninemile Remount Depot

64

Marie Montana

65

Education for All

66

Charles Bovey: Collector of Collections

67

Death of Thomas Francis Meagher

68

Glacier's Lake McDonald Lodge

69

Saving the Buffalo

70

Marquis de Morès

71

Pirates of the Midwest

72

Fort Benton's Hoo Doo Block

73

The Roman Theater

74

Lonesomehurst Cabin

75

Saved by the Bell

76

Ella May

77

Music and Pines

78

Bicycles

79

The Norden Bombsite

80

Coach Dogs

81

Smith Mine Disaster

82

Sarah Bickford Revisited

83

"May God Bless Her"

84

"Monster Lake"

85

Sculpture Gardens

86

A Disaster of Olympic Portions

87

Cold Case

88

The Drug Store

89

Last Spike

90

Les Bennett

91

Pierre Wibaux

92

Montana Deaconess School

93

Father Anthony Ravalli

94

Mastering Logistics

95

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

96

New Year's in 1913

97

Mamie's Bells

98

Daily Yellowstone Journal

99

Prairie Oysters (no, not those)

100

Homer Thomas

101

Christmas for Carnivores

102

White Crosses

103

Travels with Campbell

104

Turkey Mining

105

JFK Visits Montana

106

Romantic Encounter

107

The Speculator Mine Disaster

108

Grumblers Need Not Apply

109

Strange Bedfellows

110

Colter's Hell

111

Virginia City Mansion

112

Active Spirit

113

Cooking on the Hook

114

Story Block Story

115

Charity Dillon

116

Sedman House

117

Yellowstone Trail

118

Artis et Belli: The Great War and its Art

119

When the Beer Ran Dry

120

Montana and the Great War: What I Know Now

121

“Inciting Riot & Bloodshed”: Emma Goldman in Montana

122

Allotment and Fee-Patenting on the Flathead Indian Reservation, 1904–1934

123

Seed, Sedition, Suffrage, and Sobriety: Montana’s Extraordinary Session of 1918

124

Reading High Modernism in Hugo Eck’s Bozeman Deaconess Hospital

125

The Emergence of Modernism in Montana

126

Helen McAuslan, Modern Medium

127

The State of Montana History: Pt 3, Mary Murphy

128

The State of Montana History: Pt 4, Robert Swartout

129

The State of Montana History: Pt 5, Jeff Wiltse

130

The State of Montana History: Pt 2, Jon Axline

131

The State of Montana History: Pt 1, Jeff Malcomson

132

Gambling and the Great War

133

Robbing the Bootleggers: Prohibition-Era Crimes and Official Responses (or Lack Thereof)

134

Montana’s Great War of Words: Pt 3, Kurt Wetzel

135

Montana’s Great War of Words: Pt 2, Marian Holter Brod

136

Montana’s Great War of Words: Pt 1, Chuck Johnson

137

Serving a Community: The Parmly Billings Memorial Library during World War I

138

Words Transformed: How World War One Revolutionized Writing

139

Blue Ribbon Babies: Evaluating “Human Stock” in Montana’s “Better Baby Contests”

140

Landless Indians Living Off the Land and Reservation Farm Programs

141

WWI through Newspapers

142

War on the Red Plague: Montana’s Battle Against Venereal Disease

143

Montanans and the “Most Peculiar Disease”: The Flu Pandemic of 1918–1919

144

Unseen Enemy: Tuberculosis on Montana’s Indian Reservations

145

Women’s Work

146

Hazel Hunkins of Billings: Protesting at the White House, 1917–1919

147

The Great Wobbly Train Robbery of 1914

148

Guard Dogs and Dynamite: Convict Labor on the Yellowstone Trail, 1913–1917

149

The Long Road to Tribal Citizenship, 1879–1924

150

From Armistice to Aftermath: Post–World War I Montana

151

Oasis in a Time of Turmoil: Dupont’s Montana Experiment in Company Control

152

Conquering the Big Sky

153

The War Angelus Movement: Daily Prayers for Success in War

154

Over Here, Over There: The USFS during World War I

155

Montana’s Women Veterans of World War I

156

Doing Our Bit: Montana’s Home Front During the Great War

157

The Montana Council of Defense, County by County

158

“Are Undesirable”: The Sedition Act in Billings

159

Race and Ruination: 1917 and the Origins of Montana’s African American Exodus

160

Marching off to War: Montana’s African American Soldiers in World War I

161

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

162

It's For You!

163

Training a Dog

164

Scarred Trees

165

Aldridge

166

The Populist Party

167

Foul Play

168

Railroad Wars

169

"The Naked Edge"

170

Who Killed John Bozeman?

171

Champion

172

Fort Harrison

173

Magic Carpet

174

What's Up with Lime Kilns?

175

Anaconda City Limits

176

Van Orsdel Hall

177

Montana's Ringing Rocks

178

The Town that Gold Built

179

No Thanks, I'm Not Hungry

180

A Sense of Place

181

What's in a Name?

182

The Fairy Steps

183

Lavina

184

Fourth of July in Alder Gulch, 1865

185

House of Wong

186

A General's Best Friend(s)

187

A Hard Lesson

188

Showdown

189

Dr. Pocock

190

“We Had to Start Treating Them as Human Beings”

191

Together Forever

192

The Smith Mine Disaster

193

Jack Beecham

194

Sullivan Saddlery

195

Building Rumors

196

Gold Rush Doctors

197

True Grit

198

"Chinese" Ovens?

199

The Women's Mural

200

Fashion Police

201

Sam Lucas

202

Birdie (Bertie) Brown

203

What Can We Learn from World War I?

204

Medicine Rocks State Park

205

Hillside Letters

206

Montana's First Legal Hanging

207

Oscar Lewis

208

East Shore Road

209

Murder of Celestia Alice Earp

210

Ghost Horse

211

Prohibition, Prostitution, and Murder in Helena

212

Bessie Fisher

213

Nancy Wright's Sacrifice

214

Architecture at the University of Montana

215

Bill Stockton

216

Lewis & Clark vs Ursus Horribilis

217

Old Man Stormit

218

Garden City

219

Charlie Russell's Funeral

220

Buffalo Soldiers in Cuba

221

Frank Lloyd Wright

222

African Americans in the Civil War

223

A Nation Of Sportsmen: Thinking Historically about Hunting in the Postwar United States

224

National Historic Landmarks

225

First Female Prisoner

226

Hard Times for Homesteaders

227

Native American Roots

228

Fighting Fire

229

A Miner's Lunch

230

Castle in the Sky

231

Mining Camp New Year

232

Forbidden Pleasures

233

"Not in Our Town"

234

Daddy Reeves

235

Cooke City

236

Christmas Shopping

237

Little Rocky Mountains

238

Wild Horse Island

239

"The Seven-Story Hotel"

240

Dirty Laundry

241

Trail of Destruction

242

African American Nurses in the U.S. Army

243

The Medicine Tree

244

The Bitterroot

245

Conrad Mansion

246

Montana Americana Music: Boot Stomping in Big Sky Country

247

"It's Just the Wind"

248

Investing in a Boom Town: The Rise, and Demise, of a Self-Made Career

249

John Colter's Ghost

250

The Monogram

251

A Town Called Coulson

252

Salish Stories

253

Walkers Bar

254

Native Land

255

The Past and Future of Montana’s History: Now What?

256

The Past and Future of Montana’s History: 1950s-1990s

257

The Past and Future of Montana’s History: 1860s-1940s

258

Darby’s Tin Cup Creek Ostergrens

259

Vaccine Production in the Bitterroot Valley during World War II

260

A Mission to the Lamanites: Frank Warner, Mormons, and Religion at Fort Peck

261

Following Nicolas Point through Blackfeet Country

262

Capt. Mullan’s Lecture at Ft. Owen on the Lewis & Clark Expedition

263

Major John Owen: From Walla Walla to Fort Benton and Beyond

264

Story of a Madam, “Mammy” Clara Sarah Smith

265

Ponies and Passes: Lewis and Clark through the Bitterroot in Sept. 1805

266

Lost Trail Descent into Darby

267

Nathaniel Wyeth and the Salish: Two Weeks in the Bitterroot Valley in 1833

268

The Flint Creek and Bitterroot Valleys in the Mountain Man Era, 1825–1865

269

The Salish and the Bitterroot

270

Storied Waters: Native American Folklore at Hot Springs in the Bitterroot Valley

271

Jeannette Rankin, “America’s Conscience”

272

Major Charles Rawn

273

Stories of the Bitterroot Stock Farm and the Daly Women Who Ran It

274

To the Bitter End: The 10th and 20th Engineers Forestry During WWI

275

Apples, Optimism, and Frank Lloyd Wright in the Bitterroot

276

To Bee or Not to Bee

277

Following the Nez Perce Trail

278

Logging and Lobbying in the Gilded Age, 1882–1917

279

Bitterroot National Forest: The Early Years, 1897–1945

280

The Clear-Cut Controversy: The Bitterroot and the Reshaping of National Forest Service Policy

281

Recent Research, Emerging Scholars: Guthrie Meeker

282

The Bitterroot: From John Birch to the Tea Party

283

Recent Research, Emerging Scholars: Jimi DelDuca

284

Recent Research, Emerging Scholars: Micaela Young

285

Women Reformers

286

Aunt Kitty: Mother of the Postulants

287

Place Among the Displaced: Envisioning Preservation of a Métis Settlement in Montana

288

Montana Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

289

Train Robbery

290

Sleeping Child Hot Springs

291

Edgar S. Paxson

292

Helena's Beattie Park

293

Paint Your Wagon

294

An Errant Ferry

295

Helena's Paul Revere

296

Ralph DeCamp

297

Greenough Mansion

298

"Civilizing" the Natives

299

Henry Plummer

300

Still Waters

301

Cannibals!

302

"Laugh Kills Lonesome"

303

Ledger Art

304

Making Your Own News

305

Scientists at Work

306

Marcus Daly's Horses

307

Ming Opera House

308

Borden's Hotel

309

Famished!

310

A.J. Gibson

311

The Circus Comes to Kalispell

312

The Greening of the Capitol City

313

Butte's House of Mystery

314

Comanche

315

Madame Mustache

316

Birth of a Symbol

317

Evelyn Cameron Speaks

318

John L. Clarke

319

White Knuckles

320

A Spectral Legacy

321

Ultimate Service

322

Still Unidentified

323

Visions and Native Wisdom in the Writings of Frank Bird Linderman

324

Lewis and Clark among the Nez Perce: Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu

325

Montana's First State Park

326

The Bishop of All Outdoors

327

Keeping an Eye on the Sky

328

Central High School

329

Witness to Spirit: My Life with Cowboys, Mozart & Indians

330

Sedition!

331

Healy’s West: The Life and Times of John J. Healy

332

The Broadwater Hotel

333

"Driving the Golden Spike"

334

Desperate Parents

335

Sherman's Castle

336

A Box of Cats

337

E. C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott: The Texas Trail and the Open Range

338

Mingo Sanders

339

Stagecoach Etiquette

340

Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

341

Boneyard

342

The Big Horn Gun

343

Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre

344

The Gordon Family

345

Accidental Settlers

346

Helena's Placer Hotel

347

Disaster Bend

348

How to Spread Disease

349

Buck to the Rescue

350

Hard Winter

351

Deadly Cargo

352

Letters Home from Montanans at War

353

Helena's Sixth Ward

354

Turkey Pete

355

Beaver Creek Park

356

Sparing the Children

357

Bootlegging 101, continued

358

Just say "la-ray"

359

Bootlegging 101

360

Disaster Averted

361

Allen Livery and Stables

362

Virginia City's Silent Sisters

363

The Dinosaur Trail

364

Highway Archaeology

365

Building the Montana State Capitol

366

The Other C. Wamsley House

367

There is Power In a Union

368

Destination: Laurel

369

Cemetery Island

370

The National Register of Historic Places

371

The Red Light Saloon

372

Superstitions for the New Year

373

Butte's First Christmas

374

Christmas at the Movies, 1935

375

A Night to Remember

376

Dolls: More than Just Toys

377

Copper King Mansion

378

Home of Peace

379

Nevada City

380

Robber's Roost

381

Sky King

382

The Hagan Site

383

The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West

384

Thanksgiving in Bannack, 1863

385

Montana Territory's first official Thanksgiving

386

Homicide in Territorial Montana: A Violent Frontier?

387

Cinnabar's Last Hurrah

388

Helena's Women's Mural

389

Robert Gould Shaw

390

Egg Mountain

391

Harry and Adelaide: A Montana-Yellowstone Love Story

392

Women Get the Vote

393

Anaconda Saddle Club

394

George Ahern, From Montana Explorer to Imperial Forester

395

A Half-Century of Nursing Narratives in Butte, Montana, 1900–1950

396

Electronics Research Laboratory: An Oral History of Electrical Engineering in Montana

397

How We Fought

398

Anatomy of a Lynching

399

Bozeman’s Water Works: Topography, Control, and Politics

400

“Full of Life and Energy”: Electricity in Yellowstone National Park

401

Mars and the Malleable West

402

Green Museums Waking up the World

403

Willow Creek Methodist Church and Community History

404

What’s in a Name?: Understanding the “Shoo Fly” Myth

405

Blazing through Yellowstone: Trail Blazes of Yellowstone and Montana

406

History Between the Lines: Epistolary Gems from the Montana Historical Society Archives

407

Wheeling through Yellowstone: A History of Early Bicycling in the First National Park, 1883–1898

408

Steamship Travel on Yellowstone Lake

409

Real Voices from the Montana Extension Service

410

Taming Big Sky Country: A Short Overview of Montana’s Early Roads

411

North to the Gold Fields on the Montana Trail

412

Gateway to Yellowstone: The Raucous Town of Cinnabar on the Montana Frontier

413

Bluetongue, Bison Diplomacy, and the Lakota Taking of the Powder River, 1858–1868

414

Bozeman’s Masonic Lodge No. 18

415

The Story of Nelson Story

416

Mapping Métis: Indigenous Knowledge on the 49th Parallel

417

“The Inspiration of a New Land”: The Montana Years of Ina E. Gittings, 1914–1918

418

Montana Baseball History, Part I

419

Montana Baseball History, Part II

420

Beef Fudge, Pork Cake, and Huckleberry Pie

421

Montana’s Most Unexpected Treasure

422

Summoning the Dead in the West

423

Town and Gown: MSU and the Development of Bozeman

424

Thirteen Steps

425

A Ghost in the Attic

426

A Grave Situation

427

Superfish

428

You say Rimini, I say Rimini

429

Hellgate Canyon

430

Fanny Sperry Steele

431

Virginia Geiger Kenyon

432

Reed & Bowles Trading Post

433

Magnificent Journey

434

Brush Lake

435

A Rare Book

436

Yellowstone Summers: Touring with the Wylie Camping Company

437

The Meade Saga

438

The Mail Must Get Through!

439

Three Ringlings in Montana: Circus Trains to Cattle Ranches

440

Pioneers in Preservation

441

Young Love Endures

442

There Will Be Oil

443

The Fate of Jack Slade

444

"We Came Here to Make a Pile"

445

The Magruder Incident

446

Helena's Central Park

447

In Their Own Words: Translating Documents from Montana's Chinese Community

448

Without a Paddle

449

A Valuable Lesson

450

Gold, Sapphires, and Dams

451

Norman Fox: The Life and Times of the Montana Western Author

452

Bad Parenting

453

Olive Warren McDaniels

454

China Gulch

455

Annie Morgan

456

Literary Butte: A History in Novels and Film

457

Ore Train

458

Dynamite Dog

459

From the Ground Up: Montana Women and Agriculture

460

Dangerous Games

461

Unruffled

462

The Disastrous 1964 Flood in Central Montana

463

Frenchtown's Heritage

464

Bannack's Masonic Lodge

465

C.M. Russell: Heritage and Legacy

466

Love Story

467

All Night Party!

468

Kid Gloves and Brass Knuckles: Nancy Cooper Russell speaks

469

The Moss Mansion

470

The Great Depression in Plentywood

471

Frank Lloyd Wright In Montana

472

A Sad Time in Montana Aviation

473

A Worm in the Bath?

474

Reimagining Main Street: Revitalization and Tourism's Role in Montana

475

It's All a Facade

476

The Greenough Sisters

477

Mossmain: Montana's Metropolis that Never Was

478

How Deer Lodge Got Its Name

479

"The Best School West of the Mississippi"

480

Colter Controversies

481

Neihart Lives On

482

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

483

Fort Yellowstone

484

The Little Chicago of the West

485

Montana's Naval Namesakes

486

The Lee Metcalf Photograph and Film Collection Project

487

"If These Walls Could Talk"

488

The Montana Collegiate Institute

489

The Iron Riders

490

Fun and Games in Virginia City

491

Ghost Towns of the Rockies

492

Evelyn Cameron, Trailblazer

493

The Rise of Chain Stores

494

A Century of Keeping Montanans on the Road

495

Ancient Writings

496

Kidnapped!

497

Laundry Day

498

Drouillard the Dashing

499

Billings' Ambitious History

500

The Montana Central Railway