The History Press is delighted to announce another western addition to the press’ Landmark Department Store series: The Missoula Mercantile: The Store That Ran An Empire by Minie Smith. From its log cabin beginnings at a dusty crossroads in Montana Territory, the Missoula Mercantile grew to become the largest department store between Minneapolis and Seattle. […]
June 22, 2012
As Richard Gibson describes in the opening pages of Lost Butte, Montana, “Butte gets under your skin.” The city’s “story, as reflected in the buildings that line and once lined its streetscapes, is jogs and kinks and stops and starts, a crazy quilt in ten dimensions of space and time and ethnicity and attitude and […]
June 14, 2012
In 1897, A.C. Snow described Butte, Montana, as: “The largest smokiest wickedest mining camp on the face of the earth….” Today, thousands of visitors make the journey to The Richest Hill on Earth to experience a taste of the West’s mining past, connect with their family roots, and enjoy the festivals and museums that celebrate […]
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July 31, 2012
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