The 20th President

By Lawrence Reed

06/17/2025

"Garfield argued that the nation’s financial ailments, the soaring prices of the Civil War especially, stemmed from the federal government’s monetary mischief."

TAGS: Frontier History

A Giant Project that Began in Montana

By Lawrence Reed

05/20/2025

"The Montana connection dates to 1908, when the young organization began distributing Bibles. It happened at the Superior Hotel in the Mineral County town of Superior, Montana, where the Gideons placed their first 25 Bibles."

TAGS: Frontier History

A Good and Faithful Servant

By Lawrence Reed

04/15/2025

"Many Montanans still remember the great preacher’s visit to Billings in 1987, where he spoke to a crowd of more than 13,000."

TAGS: Frontier History

The Railroads That Fixed Your Clock

By Lawrence Reed

03/10/2025

"Private enterprise saw a dilemma as a problem to be solved. Governments dragged their collective feet."

TAGS: Frontier History

Remembering A Famous Camera

By Lawrence Reed

02/19/2025

"Eastman subsequently did for cameras what Steven Jobs would do for computers almost eight decades later. He put photography within the reach of almost every American family."

TAGS: Frontier History

Montana and Missouri—The Fur Connection

By Lawrence Reed

01/20/2025

"In the first half of the 19th Century, the fur trade was as big a business as there was in the Montana Territory."

TAGS: Frontier History

Merry Christmas, Montana!

By Lawrence Reed

12/16/2024

Montanans know that the spirit of the holiday should transcend a single day, December 25. As expressed by the reformed Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

TAGS: Frontier History

Maybe Blaine County Needs A New Name

By Lawrence Reed

11/18/2024

"Though it didn’t get far in Washington, some 38 states eventually passed so-called “Blaine Amendments,” including Montana."

TAGS: Frontier History

A President Who Didn’t Want The Job

By Lawrence Reed

10/21/2024

"If not for a bullet, the man who least wanted to be president may well have become one of our better ones. Such can be the bitter ironies of history thwarted."

TAGS: Frontier History

Albert Gallatin, Renaissance Man

By Lawrence Reed

09/23/2024

"In his “spare” time, he spoke out against slavery and in favor of fiscal responsibility, free trade and individual liberty. Most people never accomplish a tenth of what Gallatin did in his 88 years."

TAGS: Frontier History

Montana’s Activist Supreme Court

By Lawrence Reed

08/28/2024

"The Court should display fairness and stability and respect the constitutional prerogatives of the other branches of state government."

TAGS: Frontier History

An Idaho Story NOT Coming To Montana

By Lawrence Reed

07/23/2024

"Montanans should be grateful, though ever vigilant, that the Shippy story is not likely to be relived here in the Treasure State."

TAGS: Education Freedom, Frontier History

The Jews Of Montana

By Lawrence Reed

06/18/2024

"All of us should be proud of what Nicky Winton did to save so many, and proud of Montana’s Jewish heritage too."

TAGS: Frontier History

Fort Benton: A Small Town with a Famous Name

By Lawrence Reed

05/21/2024

"Fort Benton, Montana, is right to take pride in the man for whom it is named."

TAGS: Frontier History

Doing Something About the Debt Bomb

By Lawrence Reed

04/23/2024

"It may be what Benjamin Franklin had in mind when he said the Founders gave the American people a republic, but only so long as we can muster the courage, integrity, and fiscal rectitude to keep it."

TAGS: Frontier History