January

By Catharine Melin-Moser Born into slavery in Virginia in 1845, Millie Ringold moved to Washington, D.C. after emancipation, working as a nurse and servant for Major Nelson B. Switzer of the 3rd [...]

Richard “Dick” Charles Klick was born in Great Falls on February 7, 1934 and Nancy (Mclean) Klick on May 19, 1936. They married in 1956. The couple was most well-known for owning and operating [...]

Barbara Van Cleve’s journey beganin the small town of Melville, outsid eof Big Timber, in 1935. It was here, amidst the sweeping prairies and towering peaks, that her love affairwith photography [...]

Born in the Roundup hospital in 1943 and raised in nearby Musselshell, Raymond Hugh “Rainbow” Hillman grew up ranching and began breaking horses at the ripe age of 10 years old. He went on to [...]

Surrounded by the beautiful and often harsh Highwood Mountains, “Ed” J. Marn grew up the quintessential cowboy, with the values of hard work, determination, and community branded on him at an [...]

Born in 1940, Scooter (Hayworth) Pasha grew up twenty-two miles northeast of Geraldine on a small farm. Tragically, when she was only 10 years old, her mother passed away. Without hesitation, [...]

Dominick John (D.J.) O’Malley was born in New York City in 1867 to a Civil War veteran who died from his wounds when D.J. was small. His mother remarried a soldier, Charles White, and the family [...]

Rose Anderson Stoneberg lives on the same land where her grandmother filed a homestead claim in 1918, a 50-mile drive south of Hinsdale. Born in 1946, Rosie began a life-long love of learning in [...]

At the age of 14, Lynn “Jonnie” Jonckowski took a job as a wrangler on a dude ranch. She was mesmerized by all the rodeo tales of Montana cowboys Bill and Bud Linderman, and, of course, the [...]

Durl Gibbs, born in 1925, grew up on horseback during the Depression years. His father earned his living by the sweat of his brow. His mother made sure her children had plenty of food and decent [...]