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May 28 – Montana Territory organized; 1865 – Missoula Mills founded. Feb 1866 – County seat moved to Missoula Mills. 1869 – Emma Stack Dickenson hired as Missoula's first teacher. First bridge built across the Clark Fork River, then called Hellgate River. 1870 – Missoula first newspaper, "The Missoula and Ceder Creek Pioneer" went to ...
Missoula (/ m ɪ ˈ z uː l ʌ / ⓘ mih-ZOO-lə) is a city in and the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, United States.It is located along the Clark Fork River near its confluence with the Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers in western Montana and at the convergence of five mountain ranges, and thus it is often described as the "hub of five valleys". [8]
William J. Kennedy (August 18, 1835 – January 18, 1904) was an American politician, miner, and restaurant and hotel proprietor who served as the eighth mayor of Missoula, Montana, from 1890 to 1891.
John Peter Smith (Montana politician) Appointed August 6, 1885 21 months 5 Dwight Harding: Elected May 3, 1887 12 months 6 David D. Bogart: Elected May 7, 1888 12 months 7 John L. Sloane: Elected May 16, 1889 12 months 8 William Kennedy: Elected May 5, 1890 12 months 9 John M. Keith: Elected May 4, 1891 12 months 10 Frank G. Higgins: Elected ...
July – Montana Stockgrowers Association established by major ranch owners to deal with rustling and vigilantism on the open range. [83] September 3 – The Anaconda Copper Mining Company opens a copper smelter in Anaconda, Montana. [84] September 11 – The Society of Montana Pioneers was founded in Helena. James Fergus was elected the first ...
Montana's Agony; Years of War and Hysteria, 1917-1921 (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979). 174 pp. online; Lemon, Greg. Blue Man in a Red State: Montana's Governor Brian Schweitzer and the New Western Populism (2008) Mills, David W. Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains (2015) Col War era; excerpt
Missoula County / m ɪ ˈ z uː l ə / ⓘ is a county located in the state of Montana. As of the 2020 census , the population was 117,922, [ 1 ] making it Montana's third most populous county . Its county seat and most populous city is Missoula . [ 2 ]
U.S. President George H. W. Bush signs An Act to amend the Act of May 15, 1965, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to designate the Nez Perce National Historical Park in the State of Idaho, and for other purposes. The Nez Perce National Historical Park now includes the Big Hole National Battlefield and the Bear Paw Battlefield in Montana ...