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Montana History Portal

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Great Falls Fire Department

The Great Falls Fire Department collection represents artifacts, photographs, and documents that illustrate the development of fire fighting in Great Falls, Montana. The collection represents the...

Carbon County Photographs

Carbon County Museum has compiled a collection of photographs that highlight two of Carbon County’s major industries, ranching and mining. Dilworth Cattle Company, the largest early cattle busi...

Mapping Montana and the West

Research Montana and the West using maps from the collections of various institutions throughout the state of Montana, including contributions from the Montana Historical Society Research Center ...

Marlene Saccoccia Quilt Heritage Project

This collection documents over 100 quilts made from circa 1775 to 1994 that are preserved in the cultural history collection of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, MT.  The quilts in this c...

Rosebud County Historical Images

Rosebud County treasures an extensive collection of pictures taken by Walter Dean III.  These fascinating pictures chronicle the history of the county and many special events in the 1910s, 1920s...

The Military in Montana: History Collections

The Montana Memory Project, in collaboration with nearly 100 institutions around the state, is pleased to present a wide variety of historical resources on the military in Montana. Some of these ...

Historic Buildings of Virginia City: A Walking Tour

This digital exhibit combines historic photography of Virginia City dating back to the 1860s, with historic architectural surveys performed in 1990 and updated in 2022. In this way, you can see t...

Montana History Books

The Montana Memory Project, in collaboration with museums and libraries around the state of Montana, are pleased to present this collection of free-to-read digital history books. These books were...

Bicycles for the Army: The 25th Infantry in Montana

The military has long served as a testbed for new technologies. Late 19th century Montana was the site of one of these technology demonstrations, as the United States Army ran a series of lengthy...

Native American Boarding Schools in Montana

Towards the end of the 19th century, Native American tribes had been mostly confined to reservations. Their nomadic lifestyle had been curtailed, and they found themselves living a difficult exis...

Yellowstone National Park History

Henry Meloy

Evelyn Cameron

F. Jay Haynes