“His face was lined and careworn, but he was filled with the old spirit of hope. I couldn’t help admiring the courage of his optimism. Another thing that excited him was that some oil surveys had been made in the Big Horns. Somehow he’d managed...
In 1940’s Butte, a cabbie drops his fare before the Finlen Hotel’s Park Street entrance, looks up and spots a four-story-tall sign in red, white, and green, hawking Wrigley’s Spearmint gum. The image is of its package tilted rakishly, its spear angled skyward. The green...
The making of a hunter-conservationist...
Capturing a town’s enduring character...
When the National Park Service emerged as a new federal agency in the Interior Department 100 years ago on August 25, 1916, nobody in Montana took much notice. It did not make the front pages of the local newspapers — or even the back pages....
When not casting for trout, the famous author found retreats where he worked on some of his best-known titles...
Government photographers captured images from the Great Depression through World War II in full color and real life...
Bozeman’s Montana State College once held court on the national stage...
Artist Harry Jackson’s career included brushes with celebrity and a spectrum of work that ranged from Photorealism to Abstract Expressionism...
In Montana’s horse racing history Scottish Chieftain’s star remains faint...