Pioneer Montana Post Fights for Liberty and Journalism
Fifty years ago in 1867 Henry N. Blake led the Montana Post in a protracted battle over territorial governance and representation. The saga includes a near duel with Governor Meagher, the rise of early wire service, and the Post’s role in shaping statehood and press labor unions in Virginia City and Helena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry N. Blake
Montana Post
Thomas Francis Meagher
Congress
Montana
Post
John Buchanan
Virginia City
Justice
Thomas J. Dimsdale
Blake
Disciples of Blackstone
Territorial Assembly
First
Legislative Assembly
Pdst
Daniel W. Tilton
Benjamin R. Dittes
Helena
Bean
Judge Blak
Hugh McQuaid
Helena Independent
Harry Norton
New Northwest
Deer Lodge
J. H. Mills
Peter Ronan
Montana Democrat
Flathead
Ronan
H. T. Brown
Butte Miner
James H. Mills
H. N. McGuire
Montana Pick and Plow
Bozeman
The
Democrat
Painted Tipis and Paint Gathers of Plains Tribes
The article describes Blackfeet Crow and Flathead lodge painting traditions. It details tipi design and ventilation, painted lodge symbolism, and the role of paint gatherers extracting yellow red green pigments from rivers and caves. It also covers historical Montana journalism figures Blake Mills and the 1867 1869 newspaper moves and innovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marias
Sweet Pine Hills
Yellowstone
Little Belt Mountains
Judith
Wolf Creek
Aday
Missouri
East Helena
Townsend
Blackfeet
Crow Country
Blackfoot
Lincoln Gulch
Col White Promotes Flathead Country Real Estate
Col A A White of St Paul recently visited Butte and reiterated his large investments in Flathead Lake villa sites and Wild Horse Island. He asserts Montana’s lakeside region offers unmatched outdoor beauty and backs it with substantial capital as the Northern Pacific opens a Dixon to Polson line. The ad praises the area as ideal for summer homes and credits White with promoting the Flathead country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. White
St. Paul
Wild Horse Island
Flathead Lake
Butte
Montana
Pacifc
Dixon
Polson
Motion Pictures of Wild Animals in Cabinet Mountains
M H Bakker of Libby and a New York expert will shoot moving pictures of wild animals this fall and winter in the Cabinet mountains and along the Kootenai river. They plan a three to four month expedition to capture deer elk bears wolves and other game amid northwestern Montana scenery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cabinet Mountains
Kootenai River
M. H. Bakker
Libby
New York
Montana
Also Mentioned on This Page
Meagher
Army of the Potomac
Territorial Guards
Fort Benton
Oast
Northwest
Niles
Austria
Prussia
John P. Bruce
Montana Radiator
Robert B. Fisk
T. J. Favorite
Daily Herald
California
San Francisco
Alder Gulch
Last Chance Gulch
Silver Bow Creek
Salt Lake
Dr. Cook
Admiral Peary
Green Clay Smith
Andrew Johnson
E. Creighton
Omaha
Jeffing Quads
Catlin
Sugpoet
Mills
D. W. Tilton
Captain Mills
James H. Brown
Harry C. Kessler
Independent
Montana Gazette
Col. White
National Life Insurance Company of Montana Legal Reserve Company
Daly Bank
Butte, Mont
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