Montana Day in Yellowstone Reimagines Winter Tourism
Montana day in Yellowstone promotes year round access and winter attractions in the park. Early 1939 events showcased winter roads, wildlife viewing, free food at Buffalo ranch, and ski and skating facilities, with Tower Junction hosting a second Montana Day offering sandwiches and coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Tavlin
Montana
Yellowstone Park
Gardiner Commercial Club
B. K. Wheeler
Yellowstone
Gardiner
Cooke City
America
Buffalo Ranch
Park
Mammoth
King Winter
Gardiner Organization
United States
Tower Junction
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Open winter shows draw visitors despite historic Montana blizzard
The Yellowstone event drew about 800 guests despite a severe Montana blizzard that shut roads and dampened turnout from an expected 3000. Skiers, skaters, and wildlife viewing highlighted the park's year round accessibility and the hope for broader winter access in coming seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mess Hall
Montana
Man
Federal Food Stamp Plan Inaugurated in Montana Counties
The federal food stamp program for surplus farm products will launch in Cascade county first, then Silver Bow, with plans to expand to other Montana counties. Jonathan Garst led setup talks in Butte Great Falls and Helena, while Robert D. Fenn will represent Cascade county. The program aims to aid farmers and provide public assistance families with more food and a healthier diet while moving surplus foods through trade channels. Blue stamps cover designated surplus foods, issued by state and county welfare offices. The surplus list includes butter eggs cornmeal prunes flour rice lard pork and more, subject to changes by the secretary of agriculture.
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Montana
Henry A. Wallace
Cascade County
Silver Bow County
Jonathan Garst
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Butte
Great Falls
Helena
Garst
J. M. Brandford
Robert D. Fenn
Wallace
Helena Youth Back in U. S. After 30 Months in Europe
A Helena native Wallace Brooke writes from Oxford about wartime conditions in England and France. He details his return voyage by Gibraltar and Genoa, discussing neutral ship searches, speed delays, air raids precautions, and travel via Paris Zermatt and Italy under U S neutrality rules.
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London
New York
Washington
United States
England
Paris
Champs Elysees
French Alps
Finland
Dijon
Switzerland
Britain
Georges Cing
Claridges
Astoria
Army
Air Force
American Express Co
Louvre
Cluny
Rodin
Lucerne
Zermatt
Matterhorn
Giusep Motta
Motta
Basler Zeitung
Oslo
Italy
Simplon
Milan
Piapate
Ciano
Edda Ciano
Mussolini
France
Corsica
Nice
Tunis
Germany
Genoa
Newark
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Grover Whalen
Fettle
Oxford
Helena
U. S
Europe
Lalla Brooke
Wallace Brooke
Oxford University
Benjamin C. Brooke
Brooke
Wallace
Stanford University
Young Brooke
Rock of Gibraltar
S. S. Washington
Gibraltar
Algieras
United States Maritime Board
S. S. Manhattan
Richardson
States
Enoa
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Idaho
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Rhodes
Damascus
Toledo
Greece
Fs.c.c
Steplus Pood
OF Agriculture
Eas Aise
Calvert
Calvert Distillers Corporation
New York City
Nape
U. S. Bureau OF Mines
Copper Mining Company
Butte,Montana
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