Here’s what people are uncovering in The Montana Standard newspaper archives. Search our historical issues for obituaries, marriage and birth …
The "World Famous" Miles City Bucking Horse Sale has been an annual event since 1951, but was canceled in 2020 due to the global coronavirus p…
Just a few years before Billings became the "Magic City," another town served as the area's commercial hub. Coulson was a riverboat town that …
As Butte grew from a mining camp to a huge industrial metropolitan city, amenities expanded to accommodate the needs and wants of a population…
Butte’s Chinese Baptist Mission was established in 1896 at 44 West Galena Street, and Mrs. Whitmore was the superintendent there in 1898. By 1…
In 1918, Butte’s City Directory listed 23 dairies, but only 11 of them were in town. The others were a few miles out of Butte, listed as “5 mi…
Street names in the United States tend to be long-lived, but changes do happen. In Butte, some street name changes honored certain people, man…
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In the summer of 1923 Butte was in all her glory and President Warren G. Harding came to visit, to see for himself what all the commotion was about.
When Eugene V. Debs first visited Butte on February 8, 1897, he was already a prominent labor union activist. He was a founder of the American…
The southeastern corner of Gold and Montana Streets was just barely outside the original southern limit of Butte City as it was defined when t…
The discovery of precious metals brought countless new residents to Butte, many of whom lived in small mining shacks.
When Hebgen Dam was completed in 1915, the reservoir it created on the Madison River just west of Yellowstone Park was the seventh largest in …
Until the early 1900s there were many mining companies in Butte, with the Amalgamated (later the Anaconda Company) owning the lion’s share of …
Montana has had higher education opportunities since before it became a state. Some institutions have seen thousands of students graduate over…
At its height in the 1880s, Granite and its outskirts counted 6,000 residents, though today little but foundations remain. The first silver di…
In 1888, the southeast corner of Dakota and Galena Streets held a log cabin and some sheds. Dakota Street itself was “not improved,” and didn’…
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It’s a vacant lot today, but the northwest corner of Silver and Main streets holds plenty of history.
William Allison and G.A. Humphreys are credited with being the first serious miners and first permanent residents of Baboon Gulch, the first g…
The first discoveries of gold in both placers and lodes in Butte were made in May and June 1864, but it wasn’t until October, when fairly rich…
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As Butte grew, so did its volume of trash. By the late 1880s, when Butte was approaching a population of 23,000, a larger facility was establi…
Sunday, April 27, 1919, was the day the Flying Circus came to Butte. Thirty-five thousand people, reportedly the largest crowd in the history …
The Montana congressional election in 1938 was possibly the most overt clash of ideologies in state history, pitting two Butte men against eac…
Our history's in our trash. In Butte, some of that historic trash is right there on the surface. If you walk around the surviving mine dumps o…
If Utah & Northern Railway president Charles Francis Adams had had his way, the first rails into Butte would never have happened. In 1881,…
A reporter in the 1920s characterized the Anaconda Company this way: “Like the Lord God Almighty in His universe, the Anaconda Copper Mining C…
Although land was always at a premium in industrial, booming Butte, whether for mine activities or businesses and homes, as early as 1906, But…
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