Ellen Baumler's Blog, page 7

Love Story

"Brother Van" never married, although he wore a wedding ring for most of his life.


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All Night Party!

Dances were big community events in homesteading and mining settlements.


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The Moss Mansion

Architect R. J. Hardenbergh, whose work includes New York City’s Waldorf Astoria, designed the elegant Moss mansion, which is now a museum.


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The Great Depression in Plentywood

The odds were against early settlers in northeastern Montana, but hard times taught them how to get by.


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A Sad Time in Montana Aviation

Two young renowned Montana pilots met tragic ends in 1911.


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A Worm in the Bath?

Remembrances of life in the Montana governor's mansion through the eyes of children


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It's All a Facade

Surviving pioneer buildings show the clever use of materials that create a veneer of civilization.


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The Greenough Sisters

National rodeo competitors Alice and Marge Greenough learned at a young age to gentle the wildest horses.


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How Deer Lodge Got Its Name

The Shoshone called this landform "Lodge of the White Tailed Deer"


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"The Best School West of the Mississippi"

To build Great Falls Central High School, the community worked together to assemble materials from far and wide.


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