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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 2h
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:55.58°F | Min Temp:36.86°F | Chance of Precipitation:0% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 14h
He wrote Montana's nickname into existence — then spent his last years fighting to save the very land that inspired it. Discover how a small-town Choteau newsman became a Pulitzer-winning novelist, penned the screenplay for Shane, and helped save the Rocky […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:58.82°F | Min Temp:39.38°F | Chance of Precipitation:0% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
He'd just conquered one mountain. Then he set off alone up another—and vanished for good. In 1963, 21-year-old David Paul Wilson became one of Glacier Park's rare "lost, never found" cases. What really happened on Going-to-the-Sun Mountain? Web […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Vietnam never touched Montana's soil, but it touched everything else: 267 sons lost, a Butte miner's son who became the Senate's most powerful dissenter, Missoula students on picket lines, reservation warriors returning to a warrior culture that outlasted the […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
A sick, threatened governor. A dark riverboat deck with a broken railing. A splash, a cry — and no body ever found. Montana's acting governor vanished from the steamboat G.A. Thompson in 1867. Accident, suicide, or murder? The boat itself later burned with 17 […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
A Montana ranch, a hunter's stray find, and construction workers stumbling on red-stained bones: the Anzick Site holds the only known Clovis burial in the Americas. A 12,700-year-old boy's DNA later rewrote the story of who the first Americans were — and […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Piece by piece: Giving a century-old Hinsdale grain elevator a second lifeA Montana craftsman is dismantling the historic structure board by board, preserving its wood and its connection to the region’s agricultural past. Web […]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
He led nine victorious war parties and earned a sacred pipe for each one — yet almost no photo of him survives. Meet Joseph Ninepipes, the Salish leader whose story unfolded in the same Montana valleys as gold-rush legend Granville Stuart. Two frontiers, two […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:50°F | Min Temp:35.78°F | Chance of Precipitation:1% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
1991: A Montana man walks into Yellowstone's backcountry with his dog to retrieve stashed elk antlers—and vanishes without a trace. No body, no gear, no dog. Decades later, his family's fight for answers ended in a lawsuit and a case still marked "unsolved." […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
A steamboat, a president's son, and a "routine" river survey that mapped the exact spots where the Army would build forts a year later—right before Custer's last stand. No shots fired, but this quiet 1875 voyage up the Yellowstone was a rehearsal for war. Web […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:52.16°F | Min Temp:26.42°F | Chance of Precipitation:0% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Stolen tombstone found inside wall, returned to Little Bighorn Battlefield Web: www.ktvq.com/news/stolen-tombstone-… #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Your Gibson acoustic probably wasn't born in Nashville. Blame a legal threat, a tiny Bozeman mandolin shop, and workers who flatly refused to move south. Discover how Montana's dry air and stubborn luthiers built Gibson's acoustic guitars for 30+ years, and […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
A granite mansion with towers sits above a tiny Montana town. Its builder hauled stone by 16 ox teams, wired the town for electricity, and finished just as the silver bust hit. Who was Byron Sherman, and why can't historians agree who designed his Castle? Dig […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
He walked hundreds of miles alone through winter, saw Yellowstone before anyone wrote it down, then outran a Blackfeet war party naked. But John Colter left no diary, and "Colter's Hell" wasn't where you think. Follow the trail of Montana's most elusive […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
He wrote the book on measuring radio audiences, then vanished measuring a mountain trail. In 1934, Ohio State scholar Dr. Frederick Lumley left a joking postcard from Glacier Park, walked toward Waterton — and was never seen again. Weeks of searching turned up […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Two immigrant brothers hand-blasted a road up Billings' sandstone Rims in 1890 to water sheep — and it was barely used for decades. Then the WPA rebuilt it, the postwar boom paved it, and a 2018 crack nearly closed it again. How a ranch shortcut became one of […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
It survived two world wars, Prohibition, and a copper bust — a Butte brothel that ran openly for 92 years while the city quietly cashed in. Meet the Dumas: the parlor house built on a wife's maiden name, run by madams who outlasted reformers, and closed only […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:53.06°F | Min Temp:40.46°F | Chance of Precipitation:23% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS…. University of Montana highest since 2017!!😂 Web: www.kpax.com/news/university-of-mon… #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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University of Montana reaches highest enrollment since 2017, driven by record freshman class
UM enrolled 11,319 students this fall — its highest headcount since 2017 — led by the largest freshman class in 12 years.
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
He voted before he could vote for himself. Meet York — the enslaved explorer who hunted, healed, and helped Clark map Montana, even had islands named for him — yet was denied the freedom he'd earned the moment the expedition ended. Web […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:56.48°F | Min Temp:41.18°F | Chance of Precipitation:5% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
An 8-year-old vanished into Yellowstone's timber in 1966, sparking one of the park's largest-ever searches—which found nothing. No footprints. No clothing. No trace. Nearly 60 years later, the case remains unsolved. Here's the full story. Web […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:69.44°F | Min Temp:44.42°F | Chance of Precipitation:2% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Twenty Black soldiers, one wild bet: could bicycles beat horses? In 1897 they pedaled 80-lb rifle-loaded rigs from Fort Missoula through snow, alkali water, and hostile towns—1,900 miles to St. Louis in 41 days. Crowds of 10,000 cheered. History nearly forgot […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:71.24°F | Min Temp:38.3°F | Chance of Precipitation:1% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Unearth the wild saga of Garfield County, Montana—where T. rex fossils, open-range cowboys, a devastating homestead collapse, and a tense 81-day standoff collide! Discover how one of America’s emptiest, most rugged landscapes packs a massive punch in U.S […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Magnitude 3.6 earthquake strikes near Black Eagle, first widely felt in months The earthquake, centered about three miles northwest of Black Eagle, prompted more than 150 responses to the USGS "Did You Feel It?" system. Web […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
She wasn't the guide pointing westward — she was a kidnapped Shoshone teenager thrown into history. Sacajawea's calm hands may have saved Lewis and Clark's records from a river, and the brother she lost as a child held the key to crossing the Rockies […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:71.42°F | Min Temp:42.08°F | Chance of Precipitation:0% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
In 1933 a hiker climbed Mount Brown in Glacier Park and simply never came down. No body, no clues, barely a paper trail — just a name swallowed by the mountain. Discover why W. Cosby Bell's vanishing is one of history's quietest, strangest mysteries. Web […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Today's weather forecast for the Queen City of the Rockies, Helena, Montana: Max Temp:76.82°F | Min Temp:49.46°F | Chance of Precipitation:24% montana-webcams.com/helena-montana-…
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
An ox-team, a Civil War escape, and a chance meeting with the man who founded Bozeman — one Missouri father’s 1864 trek across the Bozeman Trail set up a family legacy that ended in a Livingston courtroom. Read how one pioneer’s journal became his son’s […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
In 1977, a handful of Havre mechanics built the biggest tractor on Earth—14 feet tall, 100,000 lbs, and built to outwork three Caterpillars at once. From a Montana farm crisis to a California cotton field, an Iowa museum, and back home again—the Big Bud 747’s […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Final journey: Carlisle begins its ninth repatriation of students who never made it home Web: www.glasgowcourier.com/story/2026/0… […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
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