October 2019

Not Just a Collection of Curios

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…

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October 2019

Bozeman’s Week of Horror

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…

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September 2019

Dream Out Loud

Angie Ripple

I remember my first September in Bozeman. It was a long time ago, more years than incoming MSU Freshman are old. I moved to Bozeman to attend MSU. I started with an undecided major and finished with a degree in Art and a lot of great…

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September 2019

Momming In The 406

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…

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September 2019

Timon of Anaconda

Looking at the Anthropocene through Shakespeare

Kevin Brustuen

In 1877, a young man named William Clark acquired his first mine in the struggling mining camp of Butte in Montana Territory. Clark went on to become one of the three Copper Kings of Butte, thus one of the richest men in the world at the time. Yet…

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September 2019

Lingering in the Library Labrynth

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…

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September 2019

Galloping in the Gallatin

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…

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September 2019

Belgrade Real Estate Report

Tim Ford

This article generally focuses on the Real Estate Market in Bozeman; however, the community of Belgrade is a vital part of the Gallatin Valley as well. This month, we’ll take a look at how the Real Estate Market has fared for our neighbors to…

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