MONTANA HISTORY PORTAL

The Central Montana Historical Photograph collection shows a representative sample of the Lewistown and Fergus County area from 1880-1930. It includes the early Metis settlers, the Croatian stone...

Finding the Energy to Make Change: AERO’s 45 years of impact promoting alternative energy and sustainable agriculture in Montana 1974--2019. In the 1970s, a small group of Montanans founded ...

As a social media based movement run by women in a rural energy industry-based community fighting for its survival, the Colstrip United Collection will provide the public with context for a numbe...

The Great American Cattle Drive (GACD) of 1995 left Fort Worth, Texas stockyards on March 5, 1995 and arrived in Miles City, Montana on September 1, 1995. The cattle drive was a re-enactment of t...

The first schools in Montana were tiny, one-room buildings supporting small groups of families in remote locations. Children balanced homestead duties with schoolwork, under the supervision of lo...

This photographic research guide illustrates the loggers’ work environment and some of the methods they employed during the early days of logging. Most of these photos were taken in Montana or ...