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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
#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
No myths here. Just men with power, pride, and fear making history in real time.
#books #bookreview #WorldHistory #Nonfiction
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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
#WorldHistory #USHistory #MTHistory #Montana #History #BSTS #Fourosix #MontanaToday #histodons
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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“Dinge die die Welt nicht braucht” (Things the world doesn’t need)
War.
#photography #museum #exhibition #ww1 #worldhistory #war #kansascity