This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Wisdom the Gem of the Big Hole Basin
A historical sketch of Wisdom Montana detailing its rise from uninhabited plains to a cattle boom town. It covers stock grazing, roundups, early settlers, the origin of Wisdom’s name, town facilities, mining prospects including Ajax and Pioneer districts, church and school development, and the Big Hole battle with Nez Perce figures and memorials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisdom
Big Hole Basin
Alice Lawrence
Que
Horee Prairie
Bedrock
Big Hole
Montana
Wisdom River
Miles
Horase Prairie
Gilmore & Salsbury
Jack Hicke
Jackson
James Gerry
Noyen
Ellis Estate
Noyes
Emil Zorn
J. P. Legal
Southern Montana Telephone Co
Masonic Lodge of Wisdom
Charles K. Miller
Lew L. Callaway
Montan
Big Hole Commercial
Beaverhead County
First Presbyterian Church of Wisdom
C. K E. Bovard
Princeton Theological Seminary
G. W. Kaufman
Presbyterian Church
of Wisdom
Owen Ellis
Ajax
Rocky Mountain
Idaho
Pioneer Gold Mining and Milling Co
Pioneer District
Dark Horse
Jahnke
Big Hole River
A. K. Stanton
Minnesota
Joseph K. Slack
Vermont
Califoria
H. Barr
James Coulan
Louis D. Erwin
James Millesinger
Jonh Gibbon
Joseph
Gibbon
Indiana
Bitteroot
Ruby Creek
Deer Lodge
Billy Edwards
Away
Lookingglass
Whitebird
Anaconda Standard
Standard
Northwest
Butte