The hype surrounding this summer’s eclipse is “remarkably similar” to the kind that swept the U.S. in the walk-up to the eclipse of July 29, 1878, which was seen from the Montana territory ...

In the late nineteenth century, a total solar eclipse passed over the western United States, stretching from Montana Territory to Texas. The spectacle, in the summer of 1878, drew people ...

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Barely 20, Fred Whiteside left home in Illinois in 1878 to make the dangerous trek to Montana Territory. Using profits from buffalo hunting, Whiteside became a building contractor, constructing ...

A blizzard struck the northern plains of Montana, dropping temperatures well below zero. It signaled the start of the "Starvation Winter" for the Piegans, a stretch of more than a year that ...

The message of Hon. GREEN CLAY SMITH, GOVernor of Montana, to the Legislative Assembly of that Territory, embodies many very interesting facts concerning that thriving and rapidly developing re. gion.

To combat Montana’s unforgiving environment, Fields wore a buckskin dress over buckskin pants (made from hide she’d learned to tan herself), topped by a buffalo coat and a black-brimmed hat.

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas.

On this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act that carved the Territory of Montana from the existing Idaho Territory.

Editor’s note:This is the 42nd installment of a monthly series commemorating Union and Confederate veterans of the Civil War who came to Montana after the war. This is the story of Moses Hunter ...

Barely 20, Fred Whiteside left home in Illinois in 1878 to make the dangerous trek to Montana Territory. Using profits from buffalo hunting, Whiteside became a building contractor, constructing ...