Friday Photo: Paradise Valley



Smoke aside, this is unseasonably lovely weather. Are you going to get out there and enjoy it like these folks?

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 81-65

A group of four men camp in the Paradise Valley near Yellowstone National Park in 1916. Click the photo for a bigger version to see if you can spot the fourth man.

Friday Photo: Camp Cooking

Happy Friday! The weather looks good for camping this weekend, but for heaven's sake don't light a fire like this one!




Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 943-307

Peter Koch cooks at 9,000 feet on the divide between the Gallatin and Madison rivers in 1923.

Friday Photo: Camping in Glacier

Happy Friday!




Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 956-454

These women traveled through Glacier National Park in 1917 on a horseback tour led by dude-rancher Howard Eaton. Here they pause their chores for a photo of "Ladies Row."

P.S. Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote about a similar trip in 1916.

Friday Photo: Picnicking

Happy Friday! Doesn't this picnic look idyllic?


Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, Farms and Farming Collection

This family headed into the Bearpaw Mountains in 1915 to pick service berries. You can see two containers full next to their tent. Click the photo for a bigger version. Alta Deem, photographer
P.S. What are service berries, anyway?