December 2025
Rachel Phillips
On Friday, December 10, 1948, an intriguing invitation to local children appeared in the Bozeman Courier newspaper. Underneath a photo of the popular bearded and bespeckled holiday celebrity was printed the following message: “Meet me at 2…
November 2025
Topher Sedlak
We’re surrounded by places named for historic figures—John Bozeman, Sacajawea, Charles & Angelique Anceney, Nelson Story. However, the namesake of our valley is largely invisible. Many locals know that Meriwether Lewis and William…
November 2025
Rachel Phillips
For nearly thirty years, from 1892 to 1921, Bozeman residents enjoyed reliable and convenient streetcar transportation. Trolleys moved commuters between the Northern Pacific passenger depot on Bozeman’s north side and the college campus to the…
October 2025
Mary Ellen Fitzgerald
In Bozeman history, the names Mary Doane, Emma Weeks Willson, Ellen Story, and Julia Martin are recognized, but when the community was in its infancy, many unknown women helped make this a great place to live.I had the pleasure of being acquainted…
October 2025
Kathleen Johns
Traditionally, October’s edition of Bozeman Magazine revolves around all things haunted and supernatural. It’s been a while since we have published an interview with the Bozeman Paranormal Society, so let’s reconnect with the BPS…
October 2025
Angie Ripple
French engineer Georges Claude invented the first neon sign in 1910 by passing electricity through neon in a glass tube, creating a bright red-orange glow. In Montana, the first producer of neon signs was The Electric Products Corporation (EPCON)…
September 2025
A Retrospective of 50 years in the Greater Yellowstone
We live in a magical and mysterious location on planet Earth, the Greater Yellowstone, a land where the First People hunted buffalo and raised their families; a place near a super volcano that would be like a Hawaiian island if it weren’t in…
September 2025
Rachel Phillips
In June 1926, David Angus “Kid” Johnston and his trained mountain lion performed several stunts for a Universal Film Corporation film crew in Manhattan, Montana. According to a Gallatin County Tribune and Belgrade Journal report…
August 2025
Rachel Phillips
Bozeman architect Fred F. Willson, 1929. Photograph courtesy of the Gallatin History Museum
Some people have a mind and a passion for history that has a mysterious way of making the past come alive for everyone around them. Richard Brown was one…
August 2025
Katie Thomas
Once upon a time, I was working as a freelance editor and copywriter. Equally distant in my memory is that I was also friends with a developer and her spouse. This couple asked me to write some marketing copy for their firm’s website and…
