#fourosix — Public Fediverse posts
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Built for war, tested by fire, and submerged in a frozen river, Miss Montana was just an ordinary freight plane with an absurdly extraordinary life. Discover how a forgotten piece of metal survived decades of disaster to fly all the way to Normandy!
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/miss-montana#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Carved straight through 250 feet of solid rock in 1930, Glacier National Park’s Ptarmigan Tunnel wasn't built for modern hikers—it was blasted out for horses! Discover the wild history, extreme engineering, and dramatic past of this high-alpine passage perched at 7,200 feet. Can you stomach the drop?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/ptarmigan-tunnel#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Carved straight through 250 feet of solid rock in 1930, Glacier National Park’s Ptarmigan Tunnel wasn't built for modern hikers—it was blasted out for horses! Discover the wild history, extreme engineering, and dramatic past of this high-alpine passage perched at 7,200 feet. Can you stomach the drop?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/ptarmigan-tunnel#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Carved straight through 250 feet of solid rock in 1930, Glacier National Park’s Ptarmigan Tunnel wasn't built for modern hikers—it was blasted out for horses! Discover the wild history, extreme engineering, and dramatic past of this high-alpine passage perched at 7,200 feet. Can you stomach the drop?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/ptarmigan-tunnel#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Carved straight through 250 feet of solid rock in 1930, Glacier National Park’s Ptarmigan Tunnel wasn't built for modern hikers—it was blasted out for horses! Discover the wild history, extreme engineering, and dramatic past of this high-alpine passage perched at 7,200 feet. Can you stomach the drop?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/ptarmigan-tunnel#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Carved straight through 250 feet of solid rock in 1930, Glacier National Park’s Ptarmigan Tunnel wasn't built for modern hikers—it was blasted out for horses! Discover the wild history, extreme engineering, and dramatic past of this high-alpine passage perched at 7,200 feet. Can you stomach the drop?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/ptarmigan-tunnel#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A self-published poem, $1M in hidden gold, and a decade of wild obsession. Dive into the true story of how Forrest Fenn’s legendary Rocky Mountain treasure hunt triggered fatal risks, illegal digs, and a high-stakes obsession along Montana's rugged borderlands.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/forrest-fenn-treasure#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A self-published poem, $1M in hidden gold, and a decade of wild obsession. Dive into the true story of how Forrest Fenn’s legendary Rocky Mountain treasure hunt triggered fatal risks, illegal digs, and a high-stakes obsession along Montana's rugged borderlands.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/forrest-fenn-treasure#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A self-published poem, $1M in hidden gold, and a decade of wild obsession. Dive into the true story of how Forrest Fenn’s legendary Rocky Mountain treasure hunt triggered fatal risks, illegal digs, and a high-stakes obsession along Montana's rugged borderlands.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/forrest-fenn-treasure#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A self-published poem, $1M in hidden gold, and a decade of wild obsession. Dive into the true story of how Forrest Fenn’s legendary Rocky Mountain treasure hunt triggered fatal risks, illegal digs, and a high-stakes obsession along Montana's rugged borderlands.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/forrest-fenn-treasure#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A self-published poem, $1M in hidden gold, and a decade of wild obsession. Dive into the true story of how Forrest Fenn’s legendary Rocky Mountain treasure hunt triggered fatal risks, illegal digs, and a high-stakes obsession along Montana's rugged borderlands.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/forrest-fenn-treasure#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Before he became California’s “Co-Ed Killer,” Ed Kemper was just a big, awkward kid in Helena — decapitating the family cat, firing a rifle a little too close to his sister’s head, and pining for the father who kept sending him back. His Montana boyhood holds chilling clues the FBI later studied. Here’s the untold backstory.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/ed-kemper#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Before he became California’s “Co-Ed Killer,” Ed Kemper was just a big, awkward kid in Helena — decapitating the family cat, firing a rifle a little too close to his sister’s head, and pining for the father who kept sending him back. His Montana boyhood holds chilling clues the FBI later studied. Here’s the untold backstory.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/ed-kemper#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Before he became California’s “Co-Ed Killer,” Ed Kemper was just a big, awkward kid in Helena — decapitating the family cat, firing a rifle a little too close to his sister’s head, and pining for the father who kept sending him back. His Montana boyhood holds chilling clues the FBI later studied. Here’s the untold backstory.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/ed-kemper#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Before he became California’s “Co-Ed Killer,” Ed Kemper was just a big, awkward kid in Helena — decapitating the family cat, firing a rifle a little too close to his sister’s head, and pining for the father who kept sending him back. His Montana boyhood holds chilling clues the FBI later studied. Here’s the untold backstory.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/ed-kemper#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Before he became California’s “Co-Ed Killer,” Ed Kemper was just a big, awkward kid in Helena — decapitating the family cat, firing a rifle a little too close to his sister’s head, and pining for the father who kept sending him back. His Montana boyhood holds chilling clues the FBI later studied. Here’s the untold backstory.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/ed-kemper#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Before maps existed, one army captain plunged into the wild, untamed Rockies to carve a secret backdoor into Yellowstone. Guided by a Shoshone trailblazer, Captain Jones tackled "impassable" peaks, solved ancient mountain mysteries, and mapped a route that changed the West forever. See link below for further reading⬇️
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/events/jones-expedition-1873#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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In 1875, Captain Grant Marsh pushed the steamboat Josephine farther up the Yellowstone than any vessel before it, carving its name into a cottonwood tree near what’s now Billings. Decades later it sank in ice on the Missouri. Its name still lingers on a lake and a neighborhood. See link below for further reading⬇️
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/josephine#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Built to guard against a war that went around it, Fort Missoula became home to Buffalo Soldiers, a bicycle-riding infantry corps, and later a WWII detention camp holding Italian and Japanese internees. Its brick buildings still stand along the Bitterroot, holding one of Montana's most layered military histories.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/fort-missoula#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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He was born enslaved in Virginia and died a Crow war chief on the Bighorn. Jim Beckwourth traded furs from Fort Cass, rode with Jim Bridger, and helped build the trail that carried thousands into the California gold fields. His own memoir can’t always be trusted, but his footprint on Montana’s fur trade frontier is real.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/jim-beckwourth#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Breaking news: Explosion at one of the Fort Peck Powerhouses.
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#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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In April 1965, Butte lost three residents to violence within days of each other: Joann Kankelborg, 17, and Marjorie and Nancy McQuiston, mother and daughter. One case closed. One never did. Sixty years later, the McQuiston murders remain among Montana’s most enduring unsolved crimes.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/nine-days-in-april#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Behind a salmon-pink curtain above a Butte street sits America’s oldest continuously run Chinese restaurant — 115 years of chop suey, family secrets, and quiet defiance of erasure. A James Beard honoree now facing closure. Step inside the Pekin Noodle Parlor’s booths before the lanterns go dark.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/pekin-noodle-parlor#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A ‘SLIMY’ DISCOVERY: FRESHWATER JELLYFISH FOUND NEAR CANYON FERRY RESERVOIR
Sep 2, 2026 3:13 PM
CANYON FERRY – Ten-year-old Vivi Veitch was paddling her small boat across a pond last month when something floating near the water’s surface made her bring the boat to a stop.Web:
https://fwp.mt.gov/homepage/news/2026/sep/0902-jellyfish#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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In the summer of 1874, a military escort under Marcus Reno guarded a small team of surveyors as they raced across Montana Territory to mark the 49th parallel before winter—crossing badlands, buffalo range, and Sioux hunting grounds to draw a border still standing today.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/events/northern-boundary-survey-1874#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Sunk Beneath the Surface: Montana’s Lost Trading Empire In 1867, a log fortress on the Missouri River ruled the fur trade, hosted steamboats loaded with buffalo robes, and doubled as an Indian agency. Then the railroad came—and the reservoir swallowed it whole. Dive into the vanished world of Old Fort Peck.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/fort-peck#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Before Custer’s defeat made headline news, a 190-foot steamboat had to pull off a miracle. Discover how the Far West braved shallow waters, transformed into a makeshift hospital, and smashed river speed records to carry 50+ wounded soldiers—and the shocking story of the Little Bighorn—to a stunned nation!
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/far-west#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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“The Lone Eagle” landed in Montana more than once. From barnstorming Billings skies to a hero’s welcome in Butte and Helena, Lindbergh’s daring 1927 flights over Glacier and Yellowstone shaped the state’s aviation future — and decades later, a secret cabin on the Blackfoot became his quiet refuge.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/charles-lindbergh#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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In 1942, B-17 bombers buzzed Lewistown’s Main Street and landed at a secret new airfield. For eleven months, crews trained here with America’s most guarded bombing device—then vanished. Today the only surviving Norden bombsight vault in the U.S. still sits quietly at the municipal airport.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/lewistown-satellite-airfield#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Last week on Big Sky Treasure.
#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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From the #BST archives:
Bloodless. Precise. Unexplained. Across Montana’s ranches, cattle turn up dead with surgical wounds, no tracks, no blood — and no answers. FBI blamed predators. Ranchers aren’t buying it. Cults? Craft? Something stranger? Step into one of the West’s eeriest unsolved mysteries.Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/cattle-mutilations#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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The dentist who lit the fire that ended Booth’s manhunt later became a Montana judge—undone not by outlaws, but by gambling, morphine, and small-town political revenge. Discover Everton Conger’s wild journey from Ford’s Theatre to a Beaverhead County courtroom, and the scandal that nearly erased him from history.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/everton-conger#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A woman walks away from a car crash on a lonely Montana highway in 1989—and simply vanishes. No body. No trace. Just thousands of reported sightings across decades and a case still open in McCone County. What really happened to Patricia Meehan after she crossed that fence into the dark?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/disappearance-of-patricia-meehan#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Deep in northeastern Montana, the government detonated tons of explosives to answer one question: could you blast a canal into the earth? The Pre-Gondola tests were Cold War rehearsals for nuclear excavation — and their craters still mark the land near Fort Peck.
#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Friday Flashback:
Lost for 37 days with nothing but a lens and grit. A campfire tale that may be pure fiction. The 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition named Old Faithful, birthed Yellowstone National Park — and buried a darker story of erasure beneath the myth. Uncover what really happened out there.Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/washburn-langford-doane-expedition#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Born in 1893 from a political compromise, the University of Montana grew from borrowed schoolrooms into a campus guarded by Mount Sentinel’s painted “M.” From Jeannette Rankin to Griz football Saturdays, discover how one Missoula campus became the beating heart of an entire state.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/university-of-montana#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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A boomtown vanished in months — dismantled, wagon by wagon, and rebuilt as another city. Demersville had the saloons, the sawmills, the swagger — everything but a railroad. When Great Northern chose a rival site instead, the whole town packed up and moved. What happened to Kalispell’s forgotten twin?
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/demersville#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Chopped horseshoes, a makeshift fort, and a cannon that wouldn’t die! In 1875, a ragtag band of Montana traders held off a months-long siege using a single, iconic gun loaded with scrap metal. Think the fort was burned to ash? Think again! Step inside the wild history of Fort Pease and its legendary frontier weapon.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/bighorn-gun#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Hidden in a remote Montana canyon lies one of America’s largest troves of sacred Native rock art: centuries-old shields, warriors, and animals in red, green, and maroon. When an oil company set its sights on drilling beneath it, ten tribes fought back. Discover how the Valley of the Chiefs was saved.
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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/weatherman-draw#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons