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Visit the Big Hole Battlefield
Big Hole Battlefield, credit: Donnie Sexton, MT Dept...
St Helena Cathedral
Montana is a place of craggy peaks, tough, towering pines, and windswept plains. In such a landscape, the pointed neo-gothic arches and tracery windows of St...
The Montana Historical Society
The Montana Historical Society predates the state by over 20 years. Which is probably a good thing, considering how much history happened in those years...
Race to the Sky
For a few days every February, the valleys and mountains around Helena resound with the yips and howls of impatient dogs...
Helena’s Great Shake
While Montana has never been struck by an earthquake as large as the 7.8 that struck New Zealand recently...
Getting the Last of the Gold: Hydraulic Mining
Hydraulic mining in Montana, from ellenbaumler.blogspot...
A Distinct Lack of Robbers at Robbers Roost
The fact that no robbers ever roosted at the old stage stop between Virginia City and Sheridan has never stymied the legends of secret assignations and bloody...
Top 10 Places to See Live Performance in Southwest Montana
Southwest Montana has a flair for the dramatic. Each year, the region hosts more live performances than you could possibly count...
The Account of Canton
Many feet of water should cover St. Joseph’s church. Built in 1875, on the banks of the Missouri River in the town of Canton, Montana, St. Joseph’...
What on earth does 3-7-77 mean?
Brian Dunning aired a piece on his blog Skeptoid discussing the Montana symbol 3-7-77. In it...
The Montanan Called Spokane
May, 1889. The boisterous crowd at Churchill Downs went silent as two horses lunged for the finish line, well ahead of the rest...
Girl from the Gulches
If I’m not careful, my mind will relegate Montana’s gold rush days to a dusty haze of saloon brawls and hangings...