Montana Moments

Prohibition ’s failure had some consequences no one seemed to anticipate. Illegal moonshine flowed more freely than legal booze either befor...

Artist Jack Beauchamp was born in Indiana in 1906. His family relocated to Fort Benton and later came to Helena where Beauchamp graduated fr...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives , PAc 74-37 Men enjoy a meal at the Salvation Army in Butte during the Great Depression....

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives , PAc 89-38 F5 During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration funded lib...

Are you planning a vacation this summer? Do you get ideas from travel brochures or magazines? Here's the cover of a pamphlet, published ...

English professor H. Melville Sayre of the Montana School of Mines at Butte led the first archaeological excavations at Pictograph Cave , a ...

A Plentywood rancher once told of a childhood experience that made a lasting impression. Before the Rural Electrification Administration bro...

Today's Montana moment celebrates Black History Month with a look back at the life of John W. White of Kalispell. Kalispell’s histori...

In December of 1935, Helena was still suffering from the Great Depression and the devastation of the recent October earthquakes . The series...