Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series. Montana is known for trout fishing and Glacier National Park, but perhaps less known and just as important to the state's identity is its railroad ...

Since Calumet residents Jim Flood and his wife, Stacey, purchased the former D.S.S.&A. (Mineral Range) Depot, on the corner ...

Work! It was a part of our ancestors’ lives no less than our own. As genealogists, we can fill out our knowledge of our forebears and get a better sense of what they faced daily if we know how they ...

The great railroad strike of 1877 had little direct impact on Butte or Montana, mostly because no railroads reached the Territory until 1880. But the strike, and railroads in general, were high in the ...

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

In response to the question: “Do we want 30 trucks or 10 rail cars rumbling near our homes?” The correct answer, the only wise answer, is we do not want, nor do we need, either (“Railroad, development ...