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Two Air Force cargo jets collided 25,000 feet over Montana's Hi-Line on a frigid November night in 1992. Thirteen airmen died, and a small prairie town stepped up. Find out how Harlem answered, and why its memorial still asks one question nobody can answer.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/events/1992-starlifter-collision

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Hello from the beautiful James Kipp recreation area.

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From daredevils to wartime conscientious objectors and the tragic Mann Gulch fire, discover the gripping history of how Montana became the birthplace and ultimate testing ground for America's smokejumpers.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/smoke-jumpers

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No myths here. Just men with power, pride, and fear making history in real time.
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A ghost of a Montana town that never quite existed on paper. No plat, no charter, no newspaper of its own—just a name born from a post-office feud, a one-room school, and a river bend that outlasted everyone who lived there. What actually survives in the record may surprise you.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/waterloo

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He wrote Montana's nickname into existence — then spent his last years fighting to save the very land that inspired it. Discover how a small-town Choteau newsman became a Pulitzer-winning novelist, penned the screenplay for Shane, and helped save the Rocky Mountain Front from the plow.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/a-b-guthrie-jr

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