#fourosix — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/jim-beckwourth#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.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/jim-beckwourth#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.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/jim-beckwourth#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.
Web:
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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Breaking news: Explosion at one of the Fort Peck Powerhouses.
Web:
#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Breaking news: Explosion at one of the Fort Peck Powerhouses.
Web:
#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Breaking news: Explosion at one of the Fort Peck Powerhouses.
Web:
#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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Breaking news: Explosion at one of the Fort Peck Powerhouses.
Web:
#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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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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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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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.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/nine-days-in-april#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.
Web:
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