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Gretchen Garber was born in Whitefish, Montana in 1914 [1] but was raised in the Seattle area. [2] She spent summers in Montana with her grandparents to lessen the impact of her chronic lung disease [ 3 ] and moved to Montana permanently after World War II .
The fight for women's suffrage in Montana started earlier, before even Montana became a state. In 1887, women gained the right to vote in school board elections and on tax issues. In the years that followed, women battled for full, equal suffrage, which culminated in a year-long campaign in 1914 when they became one of eleven states with equal ...
This is a list of newspapers in Montana. Current news publications. Anaconda Leader - Anaconda; Augusta Breeze - Augusta; Belgrade News - Belgrade;
Chief Koostatah was the last traditional chief of the Kootenai people [10] The newspaper started in 1956 [11] In 2001, the Native American Journalists Association awarded Char-Koosta News the "General Excellence" award for weekly publications [12] The newspaper had a ten year hiatus from December 1961 to May 1971 [13] For the first five years ...
The Billings Gazette is a daily newspaper based in Billings, Montana, that primarily covers issues in southeast Montana and parts of northern Wyoming.Historically it has been known as the largest newspaper in Montana and is geographically one of the most widely distributed newspapers in the nation.
The youth plaintiffs in the landmark legal case saw for themselves how a volatile climate was making life worse in their state. Here, they tell Cosmopolitan why they wanted to hold their ...
Suffrage supporters contacted Montana newspapers every week about the vote. [44] They sent out around 100,000 letters and sent personal letters to farmers in the state. [35] [40] Thirty-thousand copies of "Women Teachers of Montana Should Have the Vote" were printed and passed out by the Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.
The Oberlies immediately hired a manager and an editor, and moved the operation into an office in the Heights section of Billings, Montana. They operated the weekly newspaper for five years. [7] During these years, the newspaper regularly employed up to seven correspondents who wrote news stories from their respective areas of the county. [8]