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The start of another Griz football season has columnist Jim Harmon harkening back to the 1898 roster, where inaugural UM coach Fred Smith also suited up as a halfback.

Jim Harmon writes, "Ah, if only I had known about Diocletian Lewis. I might today be a man with a full head of hair, rather than a shallow remnant of a male with hardly a single follicle in working order."

Jim Harmon writes, "The Caras family in Missoula dates back to the late 1800s – specifically, to two brothers named Sam and Jim."

Montana’s reliance on volunteer firefighters has a fascinating history. In 1878, the Virginia City newspaper, the Madisonian, praised the work of the town’s volunteers: “The fire brigade did heroic work in extinguishing the flames and preventing the spread” of a fire in a wood shed at William Thompson’s place."

Hundreds of trout, dozens of grouse, hail the size of eggs, watermelons stolen from an old man, naughty boys disrupting the singing school, a sure way to improve school boys’ spelling, a screeching brass band and a bit of Irish humor. Those were the August headlines in Missoula newspapers in 1874.

Only a few decades ago, before plastic bottles were a thing, there were public water fountains.