Montana Moments

The Dearborn River country in Lewis and Clark County is an area rich in cultural history where physical remains abound if you know where to ...

Decoration Day, later called Memorial Day, was a tradition that sprang from the tremendous loses both the north and the south experienced du...

The transcript of a speech given in 1989 by Peggy Marlow Guthrie outlines the life of her grandfather, Thomas Marlow. He was a prominent ban...

During the nineteenth century, there was a national movement to plan park-like cemeteries with curving driveways and landscaped grounds outs...

One fine fall day in 1902, Kalispell founder Charles E. Conrad and his wife Alicia took a last horseback ride to a favorite  area and rested...

When Helena became the territorial capital in 1875, the capital city wanted its buildings and community resources to showcase its importance...

The first Decoration Day, or Memorial Day as it came to be called, was formally celebrated in 1868 when the Grand Army of the Republic desig...

Above-ground burials in mausoleums are the norm in Europe and in some places in the United States. In New Orleans, above-ground burials are ...

Oliver Peter Zortman came west in 1888, lured by gold discovered in eastern Montana’s Little Rocky Mountains. He struck it rich several time...

There is a very special place known to generations of Kalispell’s children as the Fairy Steps. This enchanting stairway leads up a very stee...

Priscilla Jane Allen is not the name she left behind when she died. She is known to posterity as Charity Jane Dillon, and her grave, high a...

Some men just weren’t meant for good fortune. Bill Fairweather was a tragic example of luck gone awry. In the company of a party of miners o...

Happy Monday, history buffs. Today's post might be my favorite story from all of Montana history. John Robinson III at one time had th...

Hog ’Em was originally the name for the town of Springville, one of the first-named towns in Montana Territory. With gold discoveries in the...

In the summer of 1974, a Missoula homeowner was adding a porch to his house on Cherry Street when he got a big surprise. The backhoe digging...