mastodon 4.7.3Step back in time and wander the wild, windswept plains and mountains of Montana, where history whispers through the pines and rivers remember the dreams of pioneers. From the gold rush days in Virginia City to the proud legacy of the Crow and Blackfeet Nations, Montana's past is a tapestry woven with courage, hope, and untamed beauty. Let your heart roam the Big Sky Country-where every sunset tells a story! Engage with @BigSkyTreasure@mastodon.world: BigSkyTreasure@novakmedia.one
In 1805, Lewis and Clark heard cannon fire booming across the Montana plains—no army, no storm, no explanation. Native tribes had reported the same eerie sound for generations. Two centuries later, scientists still can't fully solve the mystery of the "unaccountable artillery of the Rocky Mountains."
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/unaccountable-artillery
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Before Old Faithful was famous, an 1871 Army survey captured its very first photo. Then Chicago burned.Discover the thrilling, forgotten expedition of Captain Barlow—whose secret Yellowstone maps and lost masterpieces almost vanished forever in a sudden catastrophe! Dive into Yellowstone’s greatest lost story!
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/events/barlow-expedition-1871
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Hidden in a remote Montana canyon lies one of America’s largest troves of sacred Native rock art: centuries-old shields, warriors, and animals in red, green, and maroon. When an oil company set its sights on drilling beneath it, ten tribes fought back. Discover how the Valley of the Chiefs was saved.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/weatherman-draw
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An English boy sailed to Nebraska, learned to rope in Texas, then rode a longhorn herd into Montana — and married his boss's daughter. Teddy Blue Abbott lived the real cattle-drive era, then broke cowboy code by telling the truth about it. His 1939 memoir still shapes how we picture the Old West.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/e-c-teddy-blue-abbott
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A Great day at the #YellowstoneInternationAirShow! Check out the video for just a few of the views from today!
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A woman walks away from a car crash on a lonely Montana highway in 1989—and simply vanishes. No body. No trace. Just thousands of reported sightings across decades and a case still open in McCone County. What really happened to Patricia Meehan after she crossed that fence into the dark?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/disappearance-of-patricia-meehan
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A boomtown vanished in months — dismantled, wagon by wagon, and rebuilt as another city. Demersville had the saloons, the sawmills, the swagger — everything but a railroad. When Great Northern chose a rival site instead, the whole town packed up and moved. What happened to Kalispell’s forgotten twin?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/demersville
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Chopped horseshoes, a makeshift fort, and a cannon that wouldn’t die! In 1875, a ragtag band of Montana traders held off a months-long siege using a single, iconic gun loaded with scrap metal. Think the fort was burned to ash? Think again! Step inside the wild history of Fort Pease and its legendary frontier weapon.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/bighorn-gun
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:74.3°F | Min Temp:46.94°F | Chance of Precipitation:0%
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They started with 49 students, borrowed classrooms, and $5 in the bank. Skeptics said an “Indian college” was a bad idea. They were wrong. Salish Kootenai College rose from a Ronan schoolhouse to launch an actual satellite into orbit — and graduated more Native students than all of Montana’s colleges combined over 125 years. This is how they did it.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/salish-kootenai-college
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Two Flathead Reservation ranchers of Indigenous descent built the largest bison herd on Earth — then a forced sale sparked a wild, five-year roundup across the Montana-Canada border. Michel Pablo and Charles Allard’s herd saved the species from extinction. Discover their remarkable, overlooked story.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/pablo-allard-herd
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BILLINGS — A massive dust storm swept through northeast Montana last week, closing highways, canceling schools and damaging structures, and experts warn events like this could escalate into conditions similar to the Dust Bowl era.
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Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day — born from the grief of a nation after the Civil War. From graves adorned with flowers to a federal holiday, the story of how America learned to honor its fallen is older and more complicated than most people know.
Today we remember those who gave all!
Happy Memorial Day!!
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Major John Owen built Montana's first trading post — then lost his mind, his fort, and his fortune. Now legend says he buried gold there too. But did he? The diaries, the ledger, and decades of archaeology tell a very different story.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/fort-owen-treasure
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They had no land, no treaty, and no country willing to claim them. For decades, the Chippewa and Cree wandered Montana — deported, ignored, and desperate. Then a misnamed chief, a painter, and a writer changed everything. The unlikely story of how Rocky Boy’s Reservation came to be.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/rocky-boys-indian-reservation
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Before GPS, before satellites — one man walked into Montana’s unknown wilderness and mapped it with math and starlight. David Thompson was no adventurer. He was a scientist, a diplomat, and a cartographer who changed how the world understood the American West.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/david-thompson
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Before the dam swallowed it whole, Fort Peck was a wild Missouri River outpost — fur traders, steamboats, and Sioux all colliding in one fortified frontier hub. Now it sleeps beneath the reservoir.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/fort-peck
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Beartooth Highway welcomes Memorial Day travelers despite thin snowpack
RED LODGE — The Beartooth Highway is open for the season, welcoming skiers, sightseers, and holiday travelers just in time for Memorial Day weekend, though drivers may notice the snow walls lining the road are shorter than usual after a milder winter.
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Half legend, half history — Mike Fink ruled the frontier rivers, then vanished into Montana’s wild Yellowstone country. Was he a mountain man or a myth? The truth is wilder than the tall tales!
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/mike-fink
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:70.52°F | Min Temp:43.16°F | Chance of Precipitation:1%
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:63.32°F | Min Temp:44.42°F | Chance of Precipitation:44%
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:44.96°F | Min Temp:26.78°F | Chance of Precipitation:5%
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From Irish poverty to Montana royalty — Marcus Daly arrived in America with nothing and built a copper empire that literally created cities, bought elections, and reshaped an entire state. His rise from dock worker to mining titan is one of the wildest true stories the American West ever produced.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/marcus-daly
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Historic Helena Tour
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:47.84°F | Min Temp:28.94°F | Chance of Precipitation:57%
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Before Montana had a voice, it had Joe Howard. Journalist, historian, union man — he exposed corporate plunder, championed the forgotten, and wrote the book that defined a state. He died at 45, but Montana’s conscience never really went quiet.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/joseph-kinsey-howard
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:61.16°F | Min Temp:48.02°F | Chance of Precipitation:39%
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:78.08°F | Min Temp:57.74°F | Chance of Precipitation:2%
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Montana’s Giant Springs pumps 156 million gallons a day from a 330-million-year-old aquifer — and feeds the world’s shortest river. Lewis and Clark were speechless. A silver smelter came and went. Then fifth-graders picked a fight with Oregon. The full story is wild.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/giant-springs-roe-river
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Before the law rode in, Montana’s gold rush towns were ruled by rope & shadow. Meet the Vigilantes — secret oath-takers who hanged 21 men in 6 weeks & whose cryptic “3-7-77” still marks Montana’s Highway Patrol today!
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions#h.f7a6sgdd8h5a
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Before GPS, before gold rush outlaws, before Lewis & Clark — one ancient rock ruled southwestern Montana. Sacagawea knew it. Road agents robbed near it. Prospectors may have buried gold beside it. But is the treasure legend real history or frontier folklore? The answer is more fascinating than any buried cache.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/beaverhead-rock-treasure
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:82.76°F | Min Temp:51.44°F | Chance of Precipitation:5%
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From a 1940 county vote to a national rodeo championship — Dawson Community College in Glendive, MT has spent 85 years proving that world-class education doesn't require a big city address. Here's how it happened.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/dawson-community-college
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:64.76°F | Min Temp:49.1°F | Chance of Precipitation:53%
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:60.8°F | Min Temp:45.86°F | Chance of Precipitation:0%
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:88.88°F | Min Temp:55.22°F | Chance of Precipitation:0%
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Friday Flashback:
Lost for 37 days with nothing but a lens and grit. A campfire tale that may be pure fiction. The 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition named Old Faithful, birthed Yellowstone National Park — and buried a darker story of erasure beneath the myth. Uncover what really happened out there.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/washburn-langford-doane-expedition
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Born in 1893 from a political compromise, the University of Montana grew from borrowed schoolrooms into a campus guarded by Mount Sentinel’s painted “M.” From Jeannette Rankin to Griz football Saturdays, discover how one Missoula campus became the beating heart of an entire state.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/university-of-montana
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A New York gangster, a dead roommate, a Montana murder trial — and a suspicious "witness" who turned up dead. Robert Vanella's 1908 conviction unraveled in ways nobody expected.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/events/vanella-murder-trial
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:73.04°F | Min Temp:44.06°F | Chance of Precipitation:0%
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:72.68°F | Min Temp:42.98°F | Chance of Precipitation:1%
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Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana:
Max Temp:82.22°F | Min Temp:43.34°F | Chance of Precipitation:0%
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Deep in northeastern Montana, the government detonated tons of explosives to answer one question: could you blast a canal into the earth? The Pre-Gondola tests were Cold War rehearsals for nuclear excavation — and their craters still mark the land near Fort Peck.
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