Montana Moments

Butte’s Chinese community settled on the block bordered by West Mercury, South Main, West Galena, and Colorado streets in the late nineteent...

Thanksgiving was a harvest tradition long celebrated in New England, but it took a while to catch on in Montana. In 1863 there really was no...

Completion of the “Milwaukee Road” brought hundreds of homesteaders to Ingomar in Rosebud County during the 1910s. During its heyday, Ingoma...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 82-23.42 Nothing says "summer" like a juicy watermelon. The women who enj...

Summer makes you think of ice cream, but have you ever wondered where it came from? It has a longer history than you might think. The Roman...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 981-032 This Northern Cheyenne family dried meat in the traditional manner. They sliced...

One of the coldest holidays on record in Montana was that of 1884 when temperatures dipped to 30 degrees below zero. That Christmas Eve ther...

In the early summer of 1857, Granville Stuart and his brother James were en route from California to visit their parents in Iowa. Granville ...

The first official observance of Thanksgiving after the creation of Montana Territory came in 1865. Although President Lincoln had establish...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives , PAc 90-87.34-8 Evelyn Cameron snapped this rare photo of the interior of a homestead ...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives , 981-256 Rodrick "Butch" Munroe prepares to feed the cowboys on the LU Bar ca...

Glenn Montgomery cooked for several of the crews that built  Going-to-the-Sun Road and was head cook for West Glacier Park. But never in hi...

There are some curious features along the historic railroad grades in Montana, particularly in Lincoln and Prairie counties. These are domed...

Among the many ethnic groups that came to Butte were miners from Cornwall, England. These miners brought beliefs and traditions with them. ...

Culturally scarred trees in Glacier National Park, the Nez Perce and Bitterroot Forests, the Flathead Lake area, the Bob Marshall Wilderness...

Will you be cooking a Christmas feast like this one that Rose Drew Paulley hosted in Lavina in 1938? Montana Historical Society Photogr...