Montana History LIVE! Inc.

06/22/2024

Hi everyone. We just heard from Dale Carlson that Dee passed away on Wednesday. Our thoughts and love are with him. They both helped our event so much and she was a good friend to us all.

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05/06/2024

03/13/2024

From the Montana Post: 1869.3.12; Entertainment: The correspondent was Samuel Dunlap.

06/21/2023

04/29/2022

April 29, 1866 Granville Stuart recorded in his journal an astonishing event he witnessed in Fort Benton. “A freight wagon drawn by four mules and escorted by a company of miners, arrived. The wagon was loaded with two and one-half tons of gold dust, valued at one million five hundred thousand dollars. The gold was all from Confederate gulch and was shipped down the river by steamboat. This was the first and only time that I ever saw a wagon load of gold dust.” Pure refined gold was worth $20.67 an ounce in 1866.

09/27/2021

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Starting today and running till Sunday, Bannack State Park will be the host of Living History. In cooperation with Montana History "Live" Inc visitors will see actors portraying the citizens of Bannack from the 1800's. Bannack's Living History program will use exhibits and artifacts to help bring th...