It wasn’t the first gold camp on the South Platte, but the seven men laid out a townsite and filed incorporation papers with the legislative assembly of Kansas Territory. They were the first to do ...

Tracy Scott Valley Press, Clark Fork Valley Press & Mineral Independent, Plains, Mont. Jul. 27—Nestled along Grasshopper Creek, among the foothills of the Pioneer Mountains, lies what is now know as ...

The Bozeman Trail was a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of ...

The 70-member Montana Territory Peacemakers — Wild West enthusiasts of all ages — pack up their replica pistols, rifles and shotguns and, just as importantly, dress up in period duds for a monthly ...

Montana historians gnash their teeth over the scant information on African Americans in the pre-territory days. The phantom miner worth more than $50,000 hasn’t been positively identified, although ...

By January 1859, less than four months after the creation of Montana City, “Montana” was on a House committee’s short list of suggested names for a territory that would become Colorado, according to ...

As chairman of the House Committee on Territories, Ashley first attempted to tag “Montana” on what became Idaho Territory in 1863. In December of that same year, as the population of eastern Idaho ...