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What on earth do you suppose is this giant contraption? What could it have to do with Glacier National Park? To discover the answers, read on. Early railroad travel within the northern U. S. was...

If a person tracks our favorite river northwest for a couple hundred miles, he realizes it has a twin sister or brother river, and near the confluence of the north and south siblings is the territory...

HAPPY NEW YEAR Oil on Old Barnwood Q; What's wrong with this Montana New Year's Eve Party? A: It lacks women! Q: Why does it? A: Because there weren't any! Well, at least not so many back in the...

In the travel and research to collect the information that led to these articles and paintings we met good people of all sizes, shapes, and backgrounds, but only once were we greeted by a rancher with...

While talking about the history of her ancestral home, the Petersen Ranch, in Pleasant Valley, west of Kalispell, where Terry Siderius and her husband still live and farm, we looked through old...

In Miles City Fannie added the Montana State Ladies' Bucking Horse Championship to her laurels, and the Steeles formed their Powder River Wild West Show, with which they barnstormed Montana enroute...

When Datus Sperry moved west with his family from New York State to the vicinity of Detroit, he may not have thought of a wife. When Rachel Schroeder had moved west from Germany with her family to...

Our own little Roundup, which reckons itself a town from 1908, has its own history of both Catholic and public education. The Roundup Museum has an informative map covering the 1920s to the 1950s. In...

Almost from the time we became a country, there has been no more significant force in American private education than the Catholic Church, and it has served millions and millions of students,...

In this subseries of articles we shall depart a little from our usual format of spotlighting a particular ranch, farm, or enterprise and take up, rather, an aspect of Montana's history. One class of...

John Butterfield, won a government contract beginning in 1857 to deliver mail to San Francisco, California from Tipton, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee within 25 days, which was the beginning of the...

In 1908 the Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad laid track and began service to Roundup and beyond. About 17 miles east of Roundup the company bridged the Musselshell River and contracted with...

Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR (4!) ranches this week, all in the vicinity of Cohagen, MT. Quiz Question 1: Where is Cohagen? All true Montanans should know. Answer: Southeast of Jordan on...

A little east of the Grass Range area is perhaps the most variously owned and used land and buildings in our entire series. Long before homesteads, in the 1880s, when stops were about 15 miles apart,...

Tucker Homestead There is little pictorial evidence to display this week, because traces of the two homesteads have all but vanished, but the stories are interesting and enlightening, and we feel clos...

Publisher Note: Due to an editorial oversight, the Beckman Ranch story is being rerun in its entirety. Not all our early ranchers were homesteaders. Born in Minnesota, Albert Beckman came to Roundup...

Known locally as Nigger Bertie, by all reports she generally was regarded with affection, respect, and, for some of her works, downright admiration. She was a jolly, good-natured soul, rather short...

When reminiscing about the Matson's, we brushed across the Lackey family, for William and his wife were homesteaders on what later became Emil Matson's ranch. William insisted that his family live in...

The history of Matson family ranches in Musselshell County has two roots, one bound up with the Lackey’s, which will take the next place in our series. The senior Matson was an immigrant, German h...

When homesteaders abandoned their claims and moved on, it was common for them to turn loose their horses, and, at the time Charlie Hall came to North Gage Road, 50-60 wild horses roamed his property....

To begin, Hall was not the first landowner; it was a Mr. Tupper of Chicago, reportedly a Mafia figure seeking to elude the FBI. If this is true, he was successful, and, along with a ranch, he also...