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View of the remains of the Miners' Union Hall in Butte, Montana, after an explosion destroyed the building. A crowd of people is gathered near the building in the lower right. Photographer is provided as 'Westphal.'
August 17, 2025
Fire at the Speculator Mine Source: Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives Creator: Unknown Date: 1917
Hebgen/Quake Lake, Monday, August 17, 1959.
Friday, November 21, 2025
Fishing the Fort Peck Stock at Fred Robinson Bridge, photo courtesy of BigSky Treasure, ©2024
May 6, 2025
Crowd enjoys a band on stage at the Aber Day Kegger, Missoula, Montana. Library note: The Aber Day Keggers were held to raise funds for the University library from 1972-1979. Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Friday, January 2, 2026
June 25-26, 1876: Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn
May 24, 2025
Major Eugene M. Baker's Marias River Campaign, Montana, January 19-29, 1870.
Saturday, September 27, 20225
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons in boxing match, Shelby, Montana, July 4, 1923
July 4th, 1923
View of Camp Fisk, a temporary camp at St. Cloud, Minnesota for emigrants gathering to leave for Montana Territory as part of the Fisk Expedition of 1866. The camp was named for expedition leader, Captain James L. Fisk. Visible are many canvas tents, men, horses and/or mules, and many covered wagons. An unidentified flag flies over the camp and a pond or small lake is in the foreground. Possibly #4 in the series: 'Crossing the Plains to Montana, with Capt. Fisk’s Expedition, 1866.'
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Aerial view of Fort Peck Dam, Looking East from south side of the town of Fort Peck. Photo Courtesy of BigSky Treasure.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The ranch where the Montana Freemen had an armed standoff with the FBI. Ralf-Finn Hestoft/CORBIS
August 4, 2025
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Mount St. Helens. Austin Post, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Monday, December 1, 2025
Nez Perce National Historic Trail | US Forest Service
September 14, 2025
Project Plowshare, Pre-Gondola Craters, November 4th, 1966
"Red Cloud," black and white photograph by the American photographer John K. Hillers (1843-1925), published by Charles M. Bell. The portrait of the chief of the Oglala Lakota Sioux was taken at Washington, D.C. 25.2 cm x 41.4 cm. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. circa 1880, photo courtesy of wikipedia.org
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Montana territory / compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources by C. Roeser, principal draughtsman G.L.O. ; photo lith. & print. by Julius Bien.
September 18, 2025
Partially complete fill made on Sun River Road. Choteau, Montana. Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana. Photo Courtesy of mtmemory.org.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Kaczynski’s arrest on April 3, 1996 at his cabin near Lincoln, Montana.
July 20, 2025
Investigation party photo taken from the N slope of Mann Gulch looking S from Dodge's escape fire.
August 4, 2024
The Métis/Cree Roundup, Havre, MT Summer 1896.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Remnants of the Smith Mine as seen from Highway 308. Photo courtesy BigSky Treasure, abt. 2025
August 10, 2025
Great Falls of the Missouri Source: Peterson, Donald A. Early Pictures of the Falls: A Lewis and Clark Portrait in Time. Great Falls, MT: The Portage Chapter, Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, 1998.
August 23, 2025
"The lynching of J. L. Compton and Joseph Wilson, vigilantes. April 30, 1870. Helena, Montana. Lithographed postcard. Printed 1920-1930. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" Printed inscription in upper right hand corder reads, 'Hangman's Tree, Helena Montana.' Another version of this card states, 'More than twenty men were hanged upon this tree during the early days.'"
November 10, 2023
William Andrews ClarkHarris & Ewing, photographer
F. Augustus Heinze abt. 1904
Marcus Daly
June 20, 2025
Wallace, ID destroyed by forest fires, Overview of the city and buildings destroyed by fire.
April 14, 2025
Charles Marion Russell, "Waiting for a Chinook", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
June 15, 2024
Crown fire approaching Old Faithful Snowlodge; September 7, 1988Jeff Henry
May 24, 2025
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