Montana Moments

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 981-1348 L. A. Huffman took this photo of a car traveling down a dirt road between 191...

Update: I originally titled this post "10,000 Miles by Stage" by mistake. The actual title of Carrie Strahorn's book is 15,000...

By the mid-1860s, Helena had surpassed Alder Gulch in population. Roads ran in all directions to Gallatin City, Virginia City, Deer Lodge, a...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 84-83 f18 A couple, probably John and Fannie Westling, poses on a 1911 or 1912 Indi...

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

In his book Death in Yellowstone , Lee Whittlesey details all the known catastrophes that have occurred in Yellowstone National Park. He wri...

Eugene Ely and Cromwell Dixon celebrated aviation firsts in Montana in 1911, and ironically, both young pilots met tragic ends soon after. T...

At four o’clock on the afternoon of October 15, 1890, a train laden with ore on the Northern Pacific’s Helena, Boulder Valley & Butte Ra...

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

The Yellowstone Trail was a transcontinental road that ran from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound in the era before numbered roads and maps. As ...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives , PAc 2011-65.13 Today's photo shows women traveling by stagecoach, probably near Zo...

J. L. Campbell’s travel guide to the Territory of Idaho, Idaho: Six Months in the New Gold Regions , was intended to aid would-be emigrant...

Have you ever driven the road out to Marysville? Here's the history of this scenic route. The road began as a railroad grade for the M...

Mary McGinnis of Butte celebrated her 100th Christmas in 1934. Andrew Jackson was president when she was born in 1834, and she was married i...

More than 80,000 trolleys once clanged over 45,000 miles of track in cities across the United States. Between 1888 and 1890, there were twen...

John J. Roe of St. Louis founded the Idaho and Montana Transportation Line and the Diamond R Transportation Company in 1864. The company car...

The town of Castle in Meagher County was a wild camp where men died with their boots on. In the 1880s, two thousand residents rivaled the li...

Because events supposedly connected to Sherriff Henry Plummer and his suspected gang occurred near the Daly ranch in 1863 and 1864, mystery,...

If you are stressed out about your Fourth of July preparations, here's a humorous perspective: In the earliest days of the Montana min...

Did you hear? The Going-to-the-Sun Road is open, and the forecast for the park is calling for sixties and seventies all weekend. Wouldn...