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  1. 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:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/mys

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  2. 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.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/peo

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  3. 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?

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/mys

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  4. 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.

    Web:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/eve

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons

  5. 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:
    bigskytreasure.org/history/mys

    #WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons