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By Hope Good The Brawl of the Wild with the Montana State Bobcats (then known primarily as the Montana Agricultural College or Montana A&M) and the Montana Grizzlies rivalry began on [...]

By Suzanne Waring The community of West Yellowstone had a special reason to celebrate this year. They gathered to remember the opening of the Union Pacific Dining Lodge one hundred years ago. In [...]

By Hope Good During the early decades of the 20th century, national parks offered visitors a very different kind of wildlife experience. In Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, bears were not [...]

by Stacy Bronec StrongHer Together: A Conference for Women in Agriculture will host their third biennial conference in Fort Benton, November 16 -18. The event started in 2022 and was founded by [...]

By Hope Good For generations of Montanans, the name Buttrey was synonymous with shopping. Long before Buttrey became a familiar supermarket name across the region, however, its story began with [...]

by Hope Good The story of Town & Ranch Self- Service Furniture in Great Falls began shortly after World War II, when Irene Russell, née Patten, and her two brothers, including Harold [...]

Black cowboys formed the backbone of the 19th-century cattle industry, making up roughly one in four cowhands on the open range. Many African American fur traders and ranch hands worked the [...]

Story and photos by Erika Haight The 150th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the events leading up it to did not disappoint. Nineteen tribes participated in long distance [...]

By Suzanne Waring David Mahalic, superintendent of Glacier National Park from 1994-1999, wrote, “As with many artists, I am aware of light. The incredible morning light of Glacier that casts [...]

Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame 2008 Inductee Charles Marion Russell, known to most as Charlie Russell, remains one of the most beloved and influential Western artists in American history. Born in [...]