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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
View of Governor J. Hugo Aronson, dressed in a suit and tie, standing on the grass in front of the Montana State Capitol building. The Thomas Francis Meagher statue is also behind him on the right. Courtesy mtmemory.org, photographer unknown.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
John X. Beidler, member of the Montana Vigilance Committee and Collector of Customs in the 1860's, in a photographic portrait.
August 8, 2025
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Horace Brewster managed the Coburn and Siebern cattle ranch on Flatwillow Creek, near Lewistown, Montana. Photo Courtesy of mtmemory.org
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Jim Bridger, photo courtesy of wikipedia.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Evelyn Cameron standing on Jim the horse, between 1905-1915 (Photo # PAc 90-87.N273).
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Martha Canary, known as Calamity Jane, was one of the west's most legendary characters. She owned a cabin on Canyon Creek, west of Billings, and lived in Billings in 1894. Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Friday, January 2, 2026
Butch Cassidy poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901.
Monday, December 29, 2025
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Chief Joseph (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt or hinmatóowyalahtq̓it) of the Nez Perce, photogravure, courtesy of wikipedia.
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Chief Plenty Coup
Friday, October 17, 2025
"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. Photo courtesy wikipedia.
Friday, January 9, 2026
Possible photo of Chief Red Stone, photo courtesy of https://amertribes.proboards.com/thread/3565/red-stone-assiniboine
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Portrait of Rocky Boy, an Ojibwa Indian chief also known as Stone Child. Photograph taken from a large oil tinted photograph that hangs in the Lutheran Mission at Rocky Boy Agency. Photo Courtesy of mtmemory.org.
Sundary, February 8, 2026
William Clark, Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Elouise Cobell, photo courtesy of womenshistory.org
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Horace Countryman, photo courtesy of Jim Annin, "Horace Countryman...Unsung Hero"
Monday, December 1, 2025
Portrait of General George Armstrong Custer seated in military uniform in a photograph studio in New York, New York; Jose Maria Mora, photographer. Although renown for his long, blonde hair, this photo show's Custer's hair cut short, most likely similar to the way it was cut on the fateful day of June 25, 1876. Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Mansfield A. Daniels
August 26, 2025
Rev. Father Pierre Jean De Smet (1801-1873) Catholic missionary to Indian Territory, photo by Mathew Benjamin Brady, courtesy of wikipedia.com
Friday, December 5, 2025
Portrait of Professor Thomas Josiah Dimsdale. Dimsdale was author of 'Vigilantes of Montana.' Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Friday, January 16, 2026
Ivan Doig sitting near the Spillway Fort Peck Reservoir in Norhteast Montana, abt. 1990, photo by Carol M. Doig.
July 27, 2025
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Sidney Edgerton with white hair and a white beard. He served as the first Governor of Montana Territory from 1864-1866. Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Friday, November 14, 2035
Protrait of Truman C. Everts, Helena, Montana circa 1870. Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org
Sunday February 26, 2026
Mary Fields (c. 1832 – 1914), the first African-American woman employed as a mail carrier in the United States. Courtesy Wikipedia
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
An early drawing of Mike Fink, on a keelboat, with rifle in hand, ready to take on anyone who challenged him to a shooting match
September 3, 2025
Shirley Thomas at Gold Creek monument, photo courtesy of granitecountyhistory.blogspot.com. No known photo or sketch exists of Francois Finlay.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
James L. Fisk, courtesy of mtmemory.org
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Portrait of Brig. Gen. John Gibbon, officer of the Federal Army (Maj. Gen. from June 7, 1864) photo courtesy of wikipedia.org
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Portrait of George Bird Grinnell from Nathaniel Pitt Langford's Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in 1870 (1905), photo courtesy of wikipedia.org
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Later copy of a photo of Russell Harrison during the Spanish American War, 1898, photo taken by O. Pierre Havens
September 2, 2024
Samuel Thomas Hauser(1833-01-10 – 1914-11-10) 7th Governor of the Montana Territory (1885 to 1887).
September 3, 2024
Friday, February 27, 2026
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Friday, December 19, 2025
John "Dutch Henry" Ieuch.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Ted Kaczynski at the federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., in 1999.Stephen J. Dubner / Getty Images file
September 16, 2025
Portrait 'Yellowstone Kelly 1878 by L.A. Huffman post photographer, Ft. Keogh M.T.' Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Sunday, February 15, 2026
American Stunt Performer Robert Craig Evel Knievel Press Photo, circa 1974
March 22, 2024
Conrad Kohrs, abt. 1874, photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Meriwether Lewis, by Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sunday, October 16, 2025
Frank B. Linderman, courtesy of mtmemory.org
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Thursday, January 22, 2026
By Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Eric Carpenter (1909-1976) - http://sites.google.com/site/ilmiocinema/Home/le-star/myrna-loy/le-immagini-di-myrna-loy, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17386576
Monday, December 15, 2025
Martin Maginnis, a newspaper editor, Democratic Party politician, and Territorial Delegate to Congress for Montana Territory from 1873-1885. Photographer is C. H. McAllister, 905 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D. C.. Photo Courtesy of mtmemory.org.
Friday, January 2, 2026
Senator Mike Mansfield on CBS television program 'Washington Conversation'. DiJoseph, John M., 1906-2000
September 22, 2025
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Mathew B. Brady, circa 1823- 15 Jan 1896, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
March 3, 2024
Joseph Medicine Crow in National Geographic, photo courtesy of montanakids.com
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Mission Mountain Wood Band, photo by John Hennessey - http://www.montanapbs.org/NeverLongGone/pressroom/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53590430
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Studio portrait of Fellows David Pease, early trader and Indian agent at Fort Parker from 1870 - 1873. Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Simon Pepin, photo courtesy of findagrave.com
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Sunday, January 4, 2026
By Unknown author - "Henry Plummer's Horrendous Masquerade" article from old western magazine, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4821983
Friday, November 21, 2025
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973), a member of the United States House of Representatives who was elected in 1916 as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
November 11, 2023
Louis Riel, after a carte de visite from 1884. Photo courtesy wikipedia.org
Friday, March 6, 2026
C.M. Russell, by H.C. Eklund, courtesy Montana Hisotry Portal, mtmemory.org
Friday, October 3, 2025
Friday, January 9, 2026
Friday, January 30th, 2026
Wilbur Sanders courtesy of Montana Historical Society
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Charles C Sargent, 12 January 1846–April 1925courtesy of https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K26R-7G8/charles-c-sargent-1846-1925
Friday, October 10, 2025
Albert Schlechten in the Spanish Peaks of Montana, 1905
January 8, 2025
Alfred Schlechten (1877-1970) and sons, Alfred Chris, Jr. (1911-1979) and Frederich (1917-1989). Chris is the oldest in the photo. Alfred and his brother, Albert, were photographers in the Bozeman valley. Vintage 4x5 in. print.
Henry Sieben, Courtesy of mtmemory.org
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Nelson Story (1838-1926), businessman and rancher of Bozeman, Montana, circa 1903, photo courtesy of wikipedia.org
Monday, February 23, 2026
Granville and James Stuart
August 13, 2025
Bridget Sullivan, the Bordens' maid, moved to Anaconda a few years later. Public domain photos.
Thursday, Janaury 22, 2026
Fred Sweetman, "Laurel's Story a Montana Heritage"
October 4, 2024
Joseph K. Toole, of Helena, Montana, who served as Montana Territorial Representative to Congress and Montana's first state governor. Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Rev. William Wesley “Brother Van” Orsdel. Photo courtesy of mtmemory.org
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Sen. B.K. Wheeler, 12/8/22Abstract/medium: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
Monday, December 8, 2025
Pierre WibauxBy DONNA HEALY - https://billingsgazette.com/news/features/magazine/wibaux/article_7bcbe0fa-45f8-571d-b788-c4a5632e2efd.html, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113586862
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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