Missoula history

Harmon’s Histories: Ah, summer in western Montana!
Harmon’s Histories: Ah, summer in western Montana!
Harmon’s Histories: Ah, summer in western Montana!
What was it like, living in western Montana in its earliest days? That’s been the essence of my stories over the last decade. Sure, I do make occasional references to the kind of history you would find in a textbook, but mostly I’m interested in the people and their way of life, the good and the bad. So, let’s jump on the way-back train.
Harmon’s Histories: Rocky Mountain Labs saves lives, weathers controversies for century
Harmon’s Histories: Rocky Mountain Labs saves lives, weathers controversies for century
Harmon’s Histories: Rocky Mountain Labs saves lives, weathers controversies for century
For more than 100 years, the Rocky Mountain Labs have conducted lifesaving research into deadly diseases, including COVID-19, SARS-1, MERS, Lyme disease and Ebola. As I wrote in 2020, the Bio-safety Level 4 Labs have a colorful and controversial history, dating back more than a century to the initial reason for their existence: Black Measles, known today as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Harmon’s Histories: Missoula gardens awash in color … and pollen
Harmon’s Histories: Missoula gardens awash in color … and pollen
Harmon’s Histories: Missoula gardens awash in color … and pollen
Missoula is known as the Garden City of Montana. How that came to be was explained in the Sunday edition of the Missoulian newspaper on May 30, 1909. “To its miles of residence streets is to be traced the origin of the title, which, after all, is the proudest that Missoula bears. Wide and clean are Missoula’s streets, a rule that holds good especially in its residence districts.”
Harmon’s Histories: Name-calling nun ignites riot at Missoula Masonic Temple
Harmon’s Histories: Name-calling nun ignites riot at Missoula Masonic Temple
Harmon’s Histories: Name-calling nun ignites riot at Missoula Masonic Temple
It was a lovely spring afternoon, April 28, 1925. The temperature was expected to reach 65 degrees. Downtown, at the Missoula Masonic Temple, a former nun by the name of Sister Lucretia was scheduled to speak. More than 200 women turned out for the event, “some in sympathy with her message and some opposed,” according to local press reports.

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