montana history

Sometimes you catch yourself scrolling through news and social media posts and it is just junk after junk after junk. But then there's something cool that catches your eye.

Listed for $1,225,000, this 1880s home has close ties to Charlie Russell. It was built by one of Montana's first cattle barons and would surely cost a fortune to re-create with today's dollars.

After fording the Yellowstone River near present-day Laurel, the US Calvary battled the Nez Perce eight miles north at the mouth of the Canyon Creek canyon. Recent updates to the interpretive site will be recognized on Saturday, July 15.

Miners Union Day will be celebrated Saturday, June 15th at the World Museum of Mining which, in itself, is also a pretty big deal. Nowhere else will you find the history, relics and stories that is contained within her walls, but on the outside is the "Hell Roarin' Gulch" where you can walk the streets of a mining boomtown and see how life was. The museum also holds the actual Orphan Girl Mine which is the only mine in America where you can take an underground tour. These incredible exhibits will be on full display and a jubilant crowd is expected.

How many of these multi-generational family ranches here in Montana got their start by a soldier returning from war? Have you heard the latest desperate, anti-veteran attack against Navy SEAL veteran Tim Sheehy?

Prostitution has been illegal in Montana since 1917, yet somehow this Helena bordello in Last Chance Gulch operated openly for 56 more years.

Uncover the intriguing tale of how a former firefighter from Sweden revolutionized Montana's dining scene with the pork chop sandwich.

Miners, railroaders, trappers, and homesteaders all played a part in creating Montana's most unique town names.

What happened in history in 1889? An awful lot, that's what. Montana and three other states entered the union, but so many other interesting pieces of history came together too. History buffs, prepare for The Year Montana Became a State.

We watch it fly high over our skies in Helena and on pretty much every flagpole across our state, but do you know how the state flag came to be in Montana?