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Thirty years ago, Connie Jenkins co- founded Chouteau County Performing Arts. Thirty years ago, she took a leadership role in Fort Benton Summer Celebration. Twenty years ago, she helped start [...]

All communities have a refuge. It might be a senior center, a local cafe or tavern, a church—somewhere that people can go for companionship and help, if they need it. For over 168 years, St. [...]

On June 14, 1805, Meriwether Lewis wrote of a harrowing experience with a grizzly bear near the Great Falls of the Missouri: “In the first moment I drew up my gun to shoot, but at the same [...]

Black Eagle hardly resembles the community that stood in 1938. The air was thick with foreign accents. The Big Stack loomed large overhead. City limits were distinct from those of neighboring [...]

For nearly 100 years, Johnson Madison Lumber has supported the needs of Great Falls contractors, homeowners, high school students, charities, and others, with great products, friendly service, [...]

1805, Meriwether Lewis named the Black Eagle Falls while on his expectant cross-country expedition. Here, in 1880, Paris Gibson envisioned the area’s potential as an industrial center with [...]

Nobody builds rifles like Shiloh Sharps. Established in 1976, the family-run company manufactures everything from scratch at their machine shop in Big Timber, and they are the only firearms [...]

Big Bud Built by Havre’s Ron Harmon in 1977, the Big Bud 747 remains the world’s largest tractor. The colossal machine weighs more than 100,000 pounds and was designed to deep rip 10,000 acres of [...]

Fort Peck Dam At a time when the nation was clawing its way out of economic depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized one hundred million dollars for the construction of a massive [...]

Lewis & Clark Bridge In 1915, Wolf Point voted in favor of incorporating as a municipality. As the area flourished, the need became apparent for a bridge across the Missouri (the nearest [...]