MontanaHistoricalSociety

This chapter contains information pertaining to what truly makes Montan special and acknowledges several significant people in Montana’s history including the “Copper King” of Butte, a scientist who created over 40 vaccines, and an activist who sued the U.S. Government and won.

This chapter explores the distinct and unique culture of American Indians and the passing of the Indian Education for All (IEFA) law. This law introduced the Seven Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians into every school in Montana.

This chapter investigates homesteading, a movement that affected Montana history like no other, the difficult times that these homesteaders faced, and the even more difficult times that the Montana Indians faced during the evolution into the twentieth century.

This chapter explains who the first people were to settle in Montana and why they came to live here, which revolved around both positive and negative factors, as well as the professions that inspired the growth of Montana.

This chapter provides important information pertaining to the first people to live in Montana, providing details surrounding the early period, the middle period, the late period, and the contact period all leading up to the current tribes of Montana.

This chapter describes the variety of geology, climate, and the three separate regions of Montana, along with introducing Montana’s tribal nations and reservations as well as the economy or business and jobs that keep Montana growing.

In Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier, retired MTHS historian Dr. Ellen Baumler explores how painting, photography, literature, oral culture, and music have given us powerful incentives to visit Montana’s parks and preserve these majestic resources.

In Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier, retired MTHS historian Dr. Ellen Baumler explores how painting, photography, literature, oral culture, and music have given us powerful incentives to visit Montana’s parks and preserve these majestic resources.

Writer Robert Nisbet talks about artists Walter Oehrle and Olive Fell in Two Historic Artists of Yellowstone National Park. Oehrle created advertising art for the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1920s and designs for the Old Faithful Inn in 1935. Fell produced refined etchings and whimsical postcards of park bears from the 1930s to the 1960s.

In Horn Miller: The Toughest Man in Montana, retired University of Texas at Austin instructor Fred Woody tells the story of Adam “Horn” Miller, a Cooke City prospector, storyteller, guide, scout, and all-around mountain man who began exploring Yellowstone in the 1860s.