MONTANA HISTORY PORTAL

This collection contains all the entries for the 2026 Contest. Vote by clicking on the thumbs-up icon next to each image. Voting opens on Friday May 15 at 8:00 am closes at 5:00 pm on Wedne...

The Yellowstone Nature Notes were a series of newsletters focused on the natural history and history of Yellowstone National Park that were published from the 1920s to the late 1950s. They were a...

With the Lewis and Clark Expedition shedding light on Montana’s wealth of resources, fur companies flocked to the state to establish business. By the late 1820s, the American Fur Company had ma...

The trans-continental Northern Pacific railroad completed its route between Rock Creek, Montana and Missoula, Montana in June of 1883. This accomplishment triggered a chain reaction that position...

The primary railroad lines that became central to the story of Montana in the 19th century were the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific (Milwau...

During the winter of 1862, a Georgian entrepreneur named John Merian Bozeman discovered a shortcut to the Montana gold fields that would transform regional transportation in the Rocky Mountains, ...

A collection of photographs documenting the 1988 Yellowstone Fires which burned nearly 800,000 acres in and around Yellowstone National Park throughout the summer of 1988. These photos are primar...