Ellen Baumler's Blog, page 48
September 14, 2012
Happy Friday, history buffs. Summer is winding down, but ...
Happy Friday, history buffs. Summer is winding down, but this weekend promises beautiful weather. Are you going to cram in as much play time as you can?
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 90-87.G034-006Lucille and Paul Burt owned the first bicycle in Terry, and they showed it off in this 1902 photo by Evelyn Cameron. Their father was a sheep rancher.
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 90-87.G034-006Lucille and Paul Burt owned the first bicycle in Terry, and they showed it off in this 1902 photo by Evelyn Cameron. Their father was a sheep rancher.
September 12, 2012
Journey of the Scottish Rings
William Logan came from Scotland to the United States as a young man. Before he left home, his father gave him a signet ring carved with the family crest that had been in the family for generations. Logan always wore this ring. He also wore a masonic ring he greatly treasured. William Logan served in both the Mexican and Civil Wars. As Captain in the Seventh Infantry, Company A, he came to Montana the day after Custer’s defeat at Little Big Horn. A year later in August of 18...
September 10, 2012
Thomas Walsh’s Mysterious Death
U.S. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana became prominent as head of the senate committee exposing fraudulent oil leases in the 1920s. Walsh exposed the Teapot Dome scandals of President Warren G. Harding’s administration and sent Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall to the penitentiary. In 1933, President-elect Franklin Roosevelt appointed Senator Walsh Attorney General. Just before the inauguration, on February 25, 1933, in Cuba, Senator Walsh married Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, widow of a...
September 7, 2012
Friday Photo: Rural Schoolhouse
Happy Friday! Here's a photo for all the kids and teachers who are back in school.
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives PAc 98-24.17 The children of Betts School in Cascade County pose with their teacher circa 1917.
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives PAc 98-24.17 The children of Betts School in Cascade County pose with their teacher circa 1917.
September 5, 2012
Charity Dillon
Priscilla Jane Allen is not the name she left behind when she died. She is known to posterity as Charity Jane Dillon, and her grave, high above Canyon Ferry Lake, is perhaps the most visited site in Broadwater County.
There are several accounts of her life and death, but the common threads recount how this young woman came west, alone and on horseback looking for her errant lover. She came to Diamond City, twenty miles northeast of present-day Townsend, in the mid-1860s and eventually fo...
There are several accounts of her life and death, but the common threads recount how this young woman came west, alone and on horseback looking for her errant lover. She came to Diamond City, twenty miles northeast of present-day Townsend, in the mid-1860s and eventually fo...
September 3, 2012
Kidnapped!
Happy Labor Day! Montana has seen its share of strikes and turmoil between investors and laborers, but let's commemorate Montana workers with this humorous story...
Harry Child came to Montana in the early 1880s to learn the mining business from his uncle, wealthy investor A. J. Seligman. Child’s vast interests eventually included mines and smelters, the Flying D Ranch in the Gallatin valley, and Yellowstone Park’s hotel and transportation companies. One of Child’s many adventures has been rec...
Harry Child came to Montana in the early 1880s to learn the mining business from his uncle, wealthy investor A. J. Seligman. Child’s vast interests eventually included mines and smelters, the Flying D Ranch in the Gallatin valley, and Yellowstone Park’s hotel and transportation companies. One of Child’s many adventures has been rec...
August 31, 2012
Friday Photo: Camp Cooking
Happy Friday! The weather looks good for camping this weekend, but for heaven's sake don't light a fire like this one!
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 943-307Peter Koch cooks at 9,000 feet on the divide between the Gallatin and Madison rivers in 1923.
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 943-307Peter Koch cooks at 9,000 feet on the divide between the Gallatin and Madison rivers in 1923.
August 29, 2012
Bill Fairweather
Some men just weren’t meant for good fortune. Bill Fairweather was a tragic example of luck gone awry. In the company of a party of miners on May 26, 1863, Fairweather panned the first gold at Alder Gulch, setting off the famous stampede. The gulch made him rich, but to Fairweather, the gold meant little. Legend has it that he would ride up and down the streets of Virginia City on his horse, Old Antelope, scattering gold nuggets in the dust. He loved to see the children and the Chinese miners...
August 27, 2012
Evelyn Cameron
Today's post remembers Evelyn Cameron. Yesterday would have been her 144th birthday.
Terry, Montana, on the state’s eastern edge, was home to Evelyn Cameron, a talented woman who documented the homesteading era and Montana outdoors with shutter, lens, and expert eye. Cameron’s photographs capture the spirit of the West just as surely as Charlie Russell’s famous paintings define Montana cowboys. Cameron came to Montana from England with her husband to raise polo ponies to ship back to the Briti...
Terry, Montana, on the state’s eastern edge, was home to Evelyn Cameron, a talented woman who documented the homesteading era and Montana outdoors with shutter, lens, and expert eye. Cameron’s photographs capture the spirit of the West just as surely as Charlie Russell’s famous paintings define Montana cowboys. Cameron came to Montana from England with her husband to raise polo ponies to ship back to the Briti...
August 24, 2012
Friday Photo: Victory Garden
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 2005-4 A1 P.10A Helena woman picks vegetables in her World War I "victory garden" in August 1918. Can anyone identify the street she's on?
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 2005-4 A1 P.10A Helena woman picks vegetables in her World War I "victory garden" in August 1918. Can anyone identify the street she's on?
