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Most people simply knew him as "Coyote Bill," the old guy who lived up Missoula’s Rattlesnake Valley. By one account, he was "the sneakin'est man that ever was." He certainly wasn't very neighborly.

When a band brings out a new album, it becomes essential to promote it by touring. Deep Sea Diver was fortunate to be asked to support Death Cab for Cutie on their latest tour. This gives them exposure to a much larger audience who are serious indie fans.

On May 14, 1935, drivers’ licenses became mandatory for “any person driving an automobile, truck or motorcycle (and required the driver) to have such a card in his possession while at the wheel of a machine on the highways” of Montana. The state, in the previous two years, “led the nation with a 74% increase in highway fatalities.”

The Montana Grizzlies pulled off perhaps the biggest win in program history and one of the biggest upsets in FCS history as UM marched into Seattle and came away with a 13-7 win over the #20 Washington Huskies to open the season Saturday.

The documentary, "Return to the Big Skies: Miss Montana to Normandy" has been a work in progress since a determined crew of volunteers first came up with the idea of restoring the legendary C-47 cargo plane nearly two decades after it had been brought back to Missoula.

It’s fall, the late 1890s – time for kids to get the latest in fall school fashion, and the reefer suit apparently was all the rage for school boys.

The Districts, who opened for Modest Mouse, gave an especially rousing performance. Based out of Philadelphia, the Districts have been touring alongside Modest Mouse throughout the summer and will continue through October.

The young men were hungry for adventure. One of them was Major John B. Catlin, who eventually set up a homestead near Hamilton in the Bitter Root valley. Later he would lead a group of volunteers who pursued the Nez Perce to the Big Hole.

A combination of traditional soul, robust country and blues, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats rose to fame in 2015 after the release of their debut self-titled album. Now with over 2 million monthly Spotify listeners, Rateliff has become a trailblazer in the Americana genre.

Today's scientists have described Morton Elrod, the University of Montana’s first biology professor and founder of the biological station in 1899, as "a renaissance man of his time. I don't think he ever slept; he was involved with everything.”