In Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier, retired MTHS historian Dr. Ellen Baumler explores how painting, photography, literature, oral culture, and music have given us powerful incentives to visit Montana’s parks and preserve these majestic resources.

Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier

In Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier, retired MTHS historian Dr. Ellen Baumler explores how painting,photography, literature, oral culture, and music have given us powerful incentives to visit Montana’s parks and preserve these majestic resources.

In Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier, retired MTHS historian Dr. Ellen Baumler explores how painting,<br>photography, literature, oral culture, and music have given us powerful incentives to visit Montana’s parks and preserve these majestic resources.

Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier

Writer Robert Nisbet talks about artists Walter Oehrle and Olive Fell in Two Historic Artists of Yellowstone National Park. Oehrle created advertising art for the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1920s and designs for the Old Faithful Inn in 1935. Fell produced refined etchings and whimsical postcards of park bears from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Two Historic Artists of Yellowstone National Park

In Horn Miller: The Toughest Man in Montana, retired University of Texas at Austin instructor Fred Woody tells the story of Adam “Horn” Miller, a Cooke City prospector, storyteller, guide, scout, and all-around mountain man who began exploring Yellowstone in the 1860s.

Horn Miller: The Toughest Man in Montana

In Lost (and Found) in Yellowstone: The Truman C. Everts Story, author and storyteller Ednor Therriault shares the chilling story of Everts’s separation from his party in 1870 and how he survived alone in Yellowstone without his horse or supplies for thirty-seven days.

Lost (and Found) in Yellowstone: The Truman C. Everts Story

The Tukudika, or Sheep Eater, Indians were a band of Mountain Shoshone who lived for thousands of years in the area that would become Yellowstone National Park. In his presentation, Nolan Brown shares the stories of his people and describes efforts at Fort Hall to preserve language and culture and encourage new research.

The Tukudika

Architect Paul Filicetti explains the architectural impacts of bathrooming in the park in Comfort Stations, Restrooms, and Private Bathrooms in Yellowstone. Focusing on buildings such as Old Faithful Inn and the Lake Yellowstone and Mammoth hotels, he shows how changing modes of transportation impacted guest facilities.

Comfort Stations, Restrooms, and Private Bathrooms in Yellowstone

Since Lewis and Clark waxed poetic about the White Cliffs, the Upper Missouri River Breaks have captivated the American public. One central, though relatively unknown, figure in the establishment of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument was Emil DonTigny (1901–1969). In Emil DonTigny: Pioneering Conservationist, Montana History Foundation historian Dr. Ciara Ryan brings to light DonTigny’s role in preserving the monument.

Emil DonTigny: Pioneering Conservationist

In National Park Service Rustic Architecture, Richard Brown shares the historyof “Parkitecture” as it relates to the prolific work of Bozeman architect Fred F.Willson. Willson designed 175 projects in and near Yellowstone between 1919and 1955.

In National Park Service Rustic Architecture, Richard Brown shares the history<br>of “Parkitecture” as it relates to the prolific work of Bozeman architect Fred F.<br>Willson. Willson designed 175 projects in and near Yellowstone between 1919<br>and 1955.

National Park Service Rustic Architecture

Upper Missouri River Breaks Monument manager Zane Fulbright in The Mighty Mo: America’s Wilderness Waterway, explores the evolution of the Missouri River from threatened resource to its status as a national monument.

The Mighty Mo: America's Wilderness Waterway

In Bozeman Prostitution and the Sociopolitical Landscape of the Early 20th Century, Montana State University graduate student Maryrose Hicko introduces Mattie Hayes Rosenthal, a prostitute in Bozeman circa 1900–1920. The presentation reveals how Rosenthal’s life was shaped by social reform before and after World War I.

Bozeman Prostitution and the Sociopolitical Landscape of the Early 20th Century

University of Montana graduate student James Compton presents Mansfield, Marines, and Mothers: Montanans and the Politics of American Intervention in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1946. At the conclusion of World War II, American citizens reasserted the democratic freedoms they had sacrificed to win the war. The American intervention in North China during the Chinese Civil War presented a ripe opportunity for civic restoration in late 1945. Compton’s presentation examines how ordinary Montanans—deployed Marines, their families, and their congressman—impacted American foreign policy through participatory democracy.

Montanans and the Politics of American Intervention in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1946

Yellowstone National Park Heritage and Research Center archivist Anne Foster  explores what exactly one wears in a national park. Her presentation, Packing for Yellowstone: Dress and Culture in the World’s First National Park, combines historical photographs, audience participation, and reproduction clothing to explore the development of the active leisure style and its influence on gender roles, social status, industrialization, and cultural norms.

Packing for Yellowstone: Dress and Culture in the Worlds First National Park

Industrial historian and retired Michigan Tech history professor Fred Quivik’s presentation, Mining and Yellowstone National Park: The Jardine Mining District, provides an expansive overview of mining at Jardine and put more recent regulatory controversies, including the hotly contested New World Mining District near Cooke City, in the context of efforts to protect Yellowstone from mining.

Mining and Yellowstone National Park: The Jardine Mining District

In The Rise and Fall of Corporate Sawmills in Montana, retired MTHS Library manager Brian Shovers chronicles the history of Montana’s corporate timber industry and the many unpredictable forces that led to its demise.

The Rise and Fall of Corporate Sawmills in Montana

University of Montana PhD student Kymberly MacEwan has researched how field matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation visited families and instructed them in proper hygiene and “moral” lifestyles while providing varying forms of healthcare. In The Field Matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation, Progressive Era, she examines how the roles these women played in healthcare, assimilation, social conformity, and government surveillance were integral to the larger Progressive Sanitation Campaign.

The Field Matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation, Progressive Era

In Who Were Montana’s Early Women Physicians? East Carolina University  professor Dr. Todd Savitt offers a group biography and stories of several of the thirty-nine determined women who applied for medical licenses in Montana between 1889 and 1910.

Who Were Montana's Early Women Physicians?

Alpine climber and historian Jacob Schmidt explores the culture of secrecy among Montana’s alpine climbers in Keeping Secrets: Montana’s “Do Not Publish” Ethic and the Experience of Wildness. Through interviews with climbers and land managers and newly available archival information, he explores the origins of the “Do Not Publish” ethic and the lasting effect it has had on alpine recreation in the state.

Keeping Secrets: Montana's Do Not Publish Ethic and the Experience of Wildness

Montana can boast some of, if not the most, robust, diverse, and enviable fish and wildlife resources in the nation. In Keeping the West Wild: The Genesis of Wildlife Conservation in Montana, Michael Korn traces Montana’s long history of wildlife conservation, from the fur trade period into the twenty-first century, and the landmark efforts that brought Montana’s wildlife resources back from the brink.

Keeping the West Wild: The Genesis of Wildlife Conservation in Montana

Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline shares exciting and colorful tales of The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive. Built during the height of the Great Depression and rising 10,947 feet above sea level, the Beartooth Highway sparked an economic boom in Red Lodge, Cooke City, and Yellowstone National Park and continues to leave a profound impression on people privileged to drive it.

The Beartooth Highway: A History of America's Most Beautiful Drive

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Roughly 10% of the Union Army was comprised of black soldiers.

African Americans in the Civil War

Montana state senator and Blackfeet tribal member Susan Webber speaks about how the use of blood quantum—or degree of ancestry—as the sole qualifier for tribal enrollment has affected the Blackfeet Tribe and families over the last century. Webber also sheds light on what the continued use of blood quantum, rather than other criteria for membership, means for the future of the Blackfeet Nation. (9/27/2019)

Blood Quantum and the Blackfeet

Of all the changes that took place in the Treasure State in the years following World War I, the most painful for some was Prohibition. Montana’s statewide ban began at 12:01 a.m. on December 31, 1918, well ahead of the national injunction. Steve Lozar shares the story of Prohibition’s impact on the Treasure State’s breweries and saloons. Lozar is an MHS trustee; member of the Salish, Kootenai, and Assiniboine tribes; great-grandson of an East Helena Prohibition-era “home brewer”; and proprietor of the Montana Beer Museum in Polson.

When the Beer Ran Dry

Thomas Francis Meagher

New details surrounding Meagher's mysterious death surfaced at the Montana Historical Society.

Death of Thomas Francis Meagher

To attract workers, entrepreneurs, and tourists, a community needs positive brand identity. When well presented, local history is a powerful tool that can be used to distinguish your town from “Everywhere U.S.A.” Billings’ Mayor William Cole tells the story of how the Yellowstone Kelly Interpretive Site was designed, funded, and constructed on the rimrocks overlooking Billings and how plans are now being prepared for the development of the William Clark Recreational Area on the Yellowstone River.

Local History as a Tool of Economic Development

A new technology brings freedom, opportunity, and controversy.

Bicycles

Marie Montana

Despite an early childhood tragedy, this Helena woman went on to become an international sensation.

Miners considered many factors when packing their lunchboxes.

A Miner's Lunch

At first, settlers were hesitant to believe tales of the existence of this unique landscape.

Colter's Hell

Keep them well-fed and happy, or suffer the consequences.

Tommyknockers

Libby’s past was based in natural resource extraction, predominately logging and mining. Today, however, neither industry exists to underpin the economy and provide employment. Montana State University PhD candidate Jennifer Dunn examines what aspects of its history Libby chooses to highlight as it re-creates its image as a pristine outdoor destination.

Incorporating Libby’s Toxic Past into the 21st Century

Visit this unique site east of Butte, but be sure to bring enough hammers.

Montana's Ringing Rocks

A speed skater from Butte is not impressed with French cooking.

A Disaster of Olympic Portions

Two young fishermen make a grisly discovery.

Cold Case

Jack Beecham

The work of this mural artist hangs in the City-County Building in Helena.

John Bozeman

Who Killed John Bozeman?

Or, How an Inventor in France Changed the World

Prairie Oysters (no, not those)

Deer Lodge wasn't ready for inmate Felicita Sanchez.

First Female Prisoner

The markers for this early interstate highway can still be seen today.

Yellowstone Trail

And rising from the ashes, wait, is that a phoenix?

Helena's Fire of 1874

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