Montana History

Montana is known for it's very interesting and industrious past

Our town is named after a man who never lived here. However, his son did. And what he said about Billings wasn't very positive.

Is Gary Cooper Montana's most famous actor? Could we use his wisdom for today and how crazy everything seems to be here in America? Check out this old quote.

Traces of mercury found in a latrine near Lolo led researchers to conclude that Lewis and Clark indeed camped at what is now a Montana State Park.

One man is responsible for bringing the Irish by the thousands to this town, and his name is Marcus Daly.

Located near the geographical center of Montana, the airbase included a top-secret storage facility for a new piece of technology called the Norden bombsight. This week, the former training center was added as an American WWII Heritage City by the National Park Service.

Yesterday, President Joe Biden proclaimed today as Indigenous Peoples' Day, a celebration of the lives and culture of Native Americans across the country. Here in Billings, they have a celebration. But this year, it seemed noticeably absent.

Every day or every evening it gives you something unique and different. Here are three of my favorites.

Sometimes those annoying tourists actually do the right thing. It happened this week at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument when tourists discovered a war relic from the infamous battle and instead of slipping it into a pocket, they turned it in.

Montana has some of the most interesting town names I've ever seen, and everyone will know exactly who is and isn't from Montana based on how they pronounce these town names.

Many of them had living quarters in the back where the teacher would live and most early students only went through the eighth grade.

Black History in Montana is a sobering mix of sadness and inspiration.