Front Row: Helen Wegren, Grace Douglas
Middle Row: Evelyn Lahood, Dorothy Sparrell
Back Row: Frances Hart, Fern Canty (coach), Esther Wegren

Cardwell High School, Cardwell, MT
Girls BAsketball Team 1925

From the 1925 The Card-Hy yearbook

Labels: 1925, Cardwell

It's rather apparent that I have no time for this blog. Again, if anyone would like to partake, or takeover please let me know. My email is requiscat at gmail dot com. Replace at with @ and dot with . accordingly.

First Sheriff
of Golden Valley County, Montana
Jesse Garfield
March 17, 1883 ~ December 18, 1920


Jesse's wife, Ruth Lane Garfield. She was the second sheriff of Golden Valley County after Jesse was killed in the line of duty.


The Officer Down Memorial Page
RootsWeb
US Marshalls, District of Montana
Golden Valley County, MT

Labels: Golden Valley County, Law Enforcement

These are teeny, but at least I'm posting something, right? Right.

Opera House, Anaconda, no date

St. Ann's Hospital, Anaconda, no date

Postcard of a Bird's Eye View of Anaconda

Labels: Anaconda

In the previous post I included a photo of Custer's Crow Scouts on horseback, here's a closer look.


The next four photos are noted chiefs and warriors of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
Sitting Bull

Gall

Rain-in-the-Face

Crow King

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Company C Commander, Thomas W. Custer

Senior Officer of the seventh cavalry, Major Marcus A. Reno

Senior Officer of the seventh cavalry, Captain Frederick W. Benteen

Labels: Battle of Little Big Horn

A map of the battlefield and river valley

General George Armstrong Custer

Chief Sitting Bull

Captain Myles Keogh (see previous post) of the seventh cavalry and his horse, Comanche. Comanche survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Paddy, Keogh's first horse, was ridden on long marches while Comanche was used in battle.

Custer's Crow scouts



Little Big Horn

Custer Monument

A photo of the Custer Monument that I took in July of 2003

Further Information:
Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association
The battlefield is located at Crow Agency
Eyewitness to History
The Battle of Little Bighorn: An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse
Native Americans dot com
Crow Nations Reenactment

Labels: Battle of Little Big Horn, Crow Agency, Fort Keogh

No, there's no new photos. Not yet, anyway. But be prepared, Dan has been added as an admin, so things will be picking up soon. Honestly, they will!

Labels: Notes from the Admin

I'd hoped this project would have been simple. I go to a few antique and junk shops, I find photos and ephemera from Montana, I scan and post. What was I thinking? I've been searching online and found some good material that I can prove are Montana-related. But finding photos that I can be certain were taken in Montana is not so easy. There's also the additional problem of money. A photo or old postcard from, say, Florida, may run about a dollar. However, it seems that local antique shops are geared a little more towards tourists, and if I want said items from Montana, I'm looking at a minimum of five dollars. For a postcard.

So this is getting off to a slow start, which is not what I wanted, but will have to suffice until I can gather more material. If there happens to be anyone out there that may want to join this blog as a member and add their own posts, maybe someone also interested in researching the web and local shops, and being a part of A History of Montana by Kodak... The offer is wide open -- I have no opposition to making this a community blog! Also, if anyone has a couple of photos or the like that they'd like to see here, that can happen, too!

If you're interested, or even if you just have a few suggestions, I'm just an email away:
requiscat at gmail dot com.

Rialto theatre date unknown


Console of an American Master Organ installed at the Rialto in 1916


Organist Karl Wright


Letterhead of the Pacific Northwest Theatres


Circa 1927


Date Unknown


Circa 1916

Labels: Butte

While looking for the photos of the depot in Glendive, MT, I tried to find extra information on the internet. Either my google searches weren't resulting in the desired hits, or the info isn't there.

Moving on... In the photos in the last post, the bottom four photos look like a different building than the one in the upper photos. Is this correct, or are my eyes failing me?

Labels: Glendive, Questions

After the last post I tried to search the particular train wreck that was the focus of the post. I did not find any historical info, but I did find several photos/postcards of the Depot in Glendive, MT. I found these at (update:fixed the link)Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association.

Labels: Glendive

While I root around and scan actual photos and memorabilia, I found this online and thought I'd start off with it:





The full newspaper article can be found: here

Labels: Glendive

I was actually watching Wild West Tech on The History Channel, when I thought of the idea for this blog. Now, last night's episode was about brothels, but the intention is much cleaner than that.

There's quite a collection of photographs, postcards, and other ephemera just waiting to be found in Montana's antique shops. Hopefully I can find some interesting pieces that showcase Montana's history and way of life.

I admit, I'm originally from Illinois. I know more about Corn and Soybeans and the way of the prairie than I do about the American Wild West. My father was a huge fan of westerns, and I remember watching them as a child. But the love didn't start there. To be honest, it began with a show on ABC called The Young Riders. It was the cute boys that caught my attention (hey, the show ran from '89 -'92, I was 12-15 years old), but the show was cancelled, the cute boys didn't work again, and I was left wanting more -- of the 19th century west of the Mississippi, that is. Extreme liberties were taken with that history, and I soon found that the real story was much more intriguing.

Now, the other part of this blog, who wants all those old photographs and junk, anyway? As a child I always felt sorry for the lost faces trapped in those old photographs and postcards. Didn't their families want them anymore? Why do they look so sad, didn't they smile back then? That's kind of why I wanted to do this, sometimes we need to pull parts of ourselves out of those old, dusty boxes and take a look at who we once were.

And won't it be cool if the brothels make it in...