We All Have Something to Learn from Alastair Sim BY JUSTIN CASE Alastair Sim, one of the great actors of all time, though long gone, may represent the hope of mankind. Here’s why. Cynicism has, unfortunately, replaced the human warmth and good feelings that once pervaded much of the world at this, the darkest time of the year. The winter solstice season, when planet Earth … [Read more...]

Leaves His Unruly Detractor Unconscious in Wibaux, Montana BY BOB BROWN Nolan Hotel, Mingusville (later Wibaux), Montana, autumn, 1884. Young, bespectacled Theodore Roosevelt was tired and hungry. He had been searching for stray horses since dawn. As he entered the inn TR described what happened. “A shabby individual in a broad hat with a cocked gun in each hand was … [Read more...]

Stories of Eastern Montana's Pioneers BY GLADYS KAUFFMAN A dugout in a bank, a blanket for a door, a dirty table piled with dirty dishes, and a sullen, uncommunicative squaw—what a reception for a new bride! Such was the reception for Mrs. Theodore Armstrong, mother of Sidney's Lucy Fisher. Theodore Armstrong, a cowhand near Woodriver, Nebraska, had long harbored a … [Read more...]

BY BETSY MARSTON We heard last month about bears rummaging through Bozeman’ alleyways in search of food, but others bears have also been making news. In the 14th mile of a 16-mile run through the Pattee Canyon Recreation Area near Missoula, college student Ani Haas suddenly found herself in the kind of situation you never want to blunder into: She was caught between a mother … [Read more...]

Woman Recalls the Attack—70 Years Ago BY ELIZABETH SCHUYLER SCHOLL In April 19, 1941, good friends Olga Radke and Yvonne (Bonnie) Bost arrived in Honolulu from St. Louis for what they had planned as the adventure of a lifetime—they would see the world. Single, and prepared to serve as nurses (being unmarried was required of women nurses then), they hatched a plan to work … [Read more...]