October 2019
Christie Selensky
For the typical senior in college, Friday nights are the ultimate time to go out with friends, relax, and let loose after a long week of classes. This past Friday was no different. My friends went out to shoot pool downtown, asking me if I wanted to…
October 2019
Tim Ford
Summer seemed a little shorter this year than some others. However, the reprieve from smoke was welcomed in comparison to the past few summers. As our nights get cooler and we move into fall, it’s a great time of year to look around the house…
October 2019
Kevin Brustuen
People don’t generally think of a museum as a venue for live theater. In the case of the Museum of the Rockies, for instance, people usually think of dinosaurs, Native American artifacts, and some pioneer-era exhibit pieces. However, this fall…
October 2019
Andrew Jefferis
Would you like to hear a ghost story? To begin, I should make it very clear that ghosts do not exist. Feel free to have your own opinions about this, but a human soul cannot be bound to the world after death. Demons, however, roam the world and only…
October 2019
It was a somber winter Sunday in the burgeoning town of Bozeman. The date was February 2, 1873, and a small procession accompanied a tiny coffin along the muddy streets toward the graveyard on the hill.
If not for a crowd gathering outside…
October 2019
Kelly Hartman
There are many wonderful stories to be told with items at the Gallatin History Museum. For years now, two items in particular have been on display in the old Jailer’s Office/Gallows Room: a wooden potato masher identified as a murder weapon by…
September 2019
Shawn Vicklund
Bozeman is booming today and is ranked as one of the fastest growing areas of its size in the nation. It has long been a favorite travel destination for Montanans and out-of-state tourists with world-class skiing, Yellowstone and Glacier National…
September 2019
Andrew Jefferis
Recovering from a number of mid-summer thunderstorms and profusion of rain, Bozeman suburbia was greener than ever. I step inside, in complete awe of the family photos printed on canvas lining the foyer. After a brief hug and some mandatory catching…
September 2019
Natalie Waddington
Libraries offer great perks for a community. They are places of knowledge, imagination, refuge, and wonder. The escape from the rest of the world that libraries provide is second to none. As a writer, I enjoy nothing more than the ability to go to a…
September 2019
Gallatin County first organized horse races in the 1870s. In November 1871, the Bozeman Avant-Courier announced four days of racing. By 1878, the Eastern Montana Agricultural and Mechanical Association purchased land, possibly the site of the…
