Montana Heritage Tour: Part 4
This episode visits Beaverhead County Museum in Dillon, Jefferson Valley Museum in Whitehall, and Central Montana Museum, Lewistown. A collaboration between the Montana Historical Society and Helena Civic Television (HCTV).
Buildings In Dillon
Some aerial shots of a few of the important building in Dillon,MT.
All Roads Lead to Helena
Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline takes you on a trip over Helena's Benton and Frenchwoman’s roads as he explains their significance to Montana’s history 150 years ago. Axline’s forthcoming book, Taming Big Sky Country: The History of Montana’s Transportation from Trails to Interstates, will be published by The History Press this March. (Presence of the Past Program Series, Feb. 5, 2015)
Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership Tutorial Film
This short film shows the beauty and splendor of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
This multiple use forest in Southwest Montana is Montana's largest, wildest and least protected forest.
The Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership is collaboration between local timber mills and conservation organizations to ensure Montana's largest national forest has the protection and economic sustainability for future generations.
Women and Prohibition When Montana Went Dry
Prohibition failed in numerous ways except in the illegal activities it fostered. From 1918 to 1933, it failed especially in Montana, where organized crime, prostitution, bootlegging, and gambling involved some very plucky women. MHS interpretive historian Ellen Baumler looks at some of these characters and their extralegal enterprises. (March 12, 2014) montanahistoricalsociety.org
How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting: American Politics (2003)
Raymond D. Strother (born October 18, 1940) is a nationally known Democratic political consultant, originally from Port Arthur, Texas.
Strother recalls that from his childhood:
Politics mattered to our lives. People like my family had no other place to turn. I remember as a very small child praying at night to Harry Truman. My father taught me that you had to stand on the picket line ... and you had to get involved in politics — because people like us had no other choice. So I became a political consultant. It was a calling like the ministry. ...Louisiana was my foxhole and I wear the scars on my soul, though I left there in 1980 to move to the District of Columbia. Corruption is an insidious thing. It is a cancer that lives and grows within us without notice. I learned political consulting in Louisiana, perhaps the most corrupt place in America. But strangely enough, most of the people there are not corrupt. They are as good as people everywhere.[2]
Strother's first campaign management role was on behalf of the Democrat Mary Evelyn Parker, who was elected for the first time on February 6, 1968, as the Louisiana state treasurer in a lopside race against the Republican candidate Allison Kolb. In time, Strother became a consultant to U.S. Senators Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, Russell B. Long, John Breaux and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, John Stennis of Mississippi, Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Gary Hart of Colorado, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Al Gore of Tennessee, and many others. He worked for gubernatorial candidates Bill Clinton of Arkansas, John McKeithen, Edwin Edwards, and Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, Mark Wells White of Texas, Bill O'Neil of Connecticut, Rudy Perpich of Minnesota, and Roy Barnes of Georgia.[1]
In 1984 and 1988, he supervised the media campaign for Gary Hart's presidential bids, but Hart was eliminated by Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Strother then worked on the Super Tuesday states in 1988 for Al Gore, who ran well only in parts of the American South.[1]
Strother has garnered awards for his documentaries about Senator Bentsen, a former U.S. representative and later the Clinton administration Secretary of the Treasury, and U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a figure in the civil rights movement.[1]
Strother has been named to the LSU Journalism Hall of Fame, the American Association of Political Consultants Hall of Fame, and, in 2013, to the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, located some thirty miles east of Natchitoches, where his college education had begun in 1958. Strother is a former president and chairman of the board of the American Association of Political Consultants. In 1999, he was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2008 he was named a fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. He also serves on the Board of Visitors of the LSU College of Journalism.
A new national award named The Strother in his honor was instituted in his honor during 2002 at the University of Akron where he was named an honorary fellow. The designation recognizes political professionals with an exemplary record of achievement in the field itself as well as promoting their expertise in higher education.[1] Northwestern State University awarded him a Doctorate of Humane Letters. An exhibit depicting his life was installed in the Hall of Notable People at the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, Texas.
In 1991, Strother penned a novel, Cottonwood, the story of a dishonest political consultant.[3] His 2005 autobiography is entitled Falling Up, How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting.[4]
In 2000, Strother was an analyst on the Public Broadcasting Service for the Cheney-Lieberman vice presidential debate. He was written essays for the Atlanta Constitution, The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Washington Post. Campaigns and Elections magazine calls Strother the poet of democracy. [1]
Strother is married to the former Sandy Peck, also a native of Port Arthur. They have two children who live in the Washington, D.C. area, Dane Strother and Kristan S. Trugman. The Strothers now reside in Bozeman, Montana, and have a home on the Big Hole River near the unincorporated community of Wise River in Beaverhead County near Dillon, Montana.
Montana Courthouse Tales (book series by Eric Olson)
THE MONTANA COURTHOUSE TALES
Where the ghosts have the last word on the Truth.
True-life tales from an all new set of Montana courthouses, narrated by a diverse cast of characters including courthouse ghosts, a famous astronaut, a talking steer, Montana's first attorney general, and a pair of familiar bar flies, among others.
Author Eric Olson
Produced by Randy Olson @ABTagenda
Edited by John Rael @Skepticallypwnd
Music by Anthony Shea
Courting Truth, begins with tales told by the Grande Dame of Virginia City, the oldest continuously functioning courthouse in Montana. From Madison County the narrative moves to Lincoln County (Libby) in the northwest corner of Montana, to the silver mines of Granite County, and then out across the plains of Rosebud and Big Horn Counties to the dryland wheat farms of Daniels County in the far northeastern corner and the sheep ranches of Carter County in the far southeast.
At the outset of Courting Justice, two spectral figures from the early days of Butte offer chilling accounts of how each met his demise as a consequence of vigilante justice run amok. Like its predecesor, Courting Justice contains stories from communities scattered across the face of the Big Sky state . . . from Sheridan County (Plentywood) along the North Dakota-Canadian line in the northeast to Beaverhead (Dillon) in the southwest, nestled hard against the Northern Rockies.
Tales contained in Courting Facts are narrated by a diverse cast of characters including two sibling ghosts who haunt a Montana courthouse, Teddy Roosevelt, a pair of familiar barflies, Montana’s first attorney general, and the twin images of a man recently freed after serving a lengthy prison term for a murder he may – or not – have committed. The scope of the tales is as broad as the varied Montana communities from which they come.
Courting Law begins in a restaurant that sits on the site of the first Yellowstone County Courthouse. When we leave Billings we’re first transported to the middle of a late night poker game in the classic Grand Hotel in Sweet Grass County, and then swept on to further adventures – like a chess match between two legendary courtroom adversaries in Broadwater County and a midnight ride onboard the ghostly Jawbone Railroad. The journey ends with a strange occurrence in the courtyard of the old Gallatin County jail.
You can also buy the Montana Courthouse Tales books from your local book retailer (including the Montana Historical Society, the Montana Book & Toy Company bookstore in Helena and The Book Exchange in Missoula), and at good book retailers.
How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting (2003)
Reared in a politically-active lower middle class home, Strother graduated in 1958 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, renamed in 2002 as Memorial High School. Strother won a track scholarship to Northwestern State University, then Northwestern State College, in Natchitoches, Louisiana. After two years, the administration asked him to leave NSC because of his political activities. He transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. There he became the advertising director and then the editor of The Daily Reveille student newspaper. While in Baton Rouge to complete his Master of Arts degree in journalism, Strother was a night reporter and photographer for the Associated Press. His 1965 thesis at LSU correctly predicted that in the future the outcome of political campaigns would depend more on media coverage and advertising than on traditional political organization.
Strother's first campaign management role was on behalf of the Democrat Mary Evelyn Parker, who was elected for the first time on February 6, 1968, as the Louisiana state treasurer in a lopside race against the Republican candidate Allison Kolb. In time, Strother became a consultant to U.S. Senators Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, Russell B. Long, John Breaux and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, John Stennis of Mississippi, Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Gary Hart of Colorado, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Al Gore of Tennessee, and many others. He worked for gubernatorial candidates Bill Clinton of Arkansas, John McKeithen, Edwin Edwards, and Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, Mark Wells White of Texas, Bill O'Neil of Connecticut, Rudy Perpich of Minnesota, and Roy Barnes of Georgia.[1]
In 1984 and 1988, he supervised the media campaign for Gary Hart's presidential bids, but Hart was eliminated by Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Strother then worked on the Super Tuesday states in 1988 for Al Gore, who ran well only in parts of the American South.[1]
Strother has garnered awards for his documentaries about Senator Bentsen, a former U.S. representative and later the Clinton administration Secretary of the Treasury, and U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a figure in the civil rights movement.[1]
Strother has been named to the LSU Journalism Hall of Fame, the American Association of Political Consultants Hall of Fame, and, in 2013, to the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, located some thirty miles east of Natchitoches, where his college education had begun in 1958. Strother is a former president and chairman of the board of the American Association of Political Consultants. In 1999, he was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2008 he was named a fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. He also serves on the Board of Visitors of the LSU College of Journalism.
A new national award named The Strother in his honor was instituted in his honor during 2002 at the University of Akron where he was named an honorary fellow. The designation recognizes political professionals with an exemplary record of achievement in the field itself as well as promoting their expertise in higher education.[1] Northwestern State University awarded him a Doctorate of Humane Letters. An exhibit depicting his life was installed in the Hall of Notable People at the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, Texas.
In 1991, Strother penned a novel, Cottonwood, the story of a dishonest political consultant.[3] His 2005 autobiography is entitled Falling Up, How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting.[4]
In 2000, Strother was an analyst on the Public Broadcasting Service for the Cheney-Lieberman vice presidential debate. He was written essays for the Atlanta Constitution, The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Washington Post. Campaigns and Elections magazine calls Strother the poet of democracy. [1]
Strother is married to the former Sandy Peck, also a native of Port Arthur. They have two children who live in the Washington, D.C. area, Dane Strother and Kristan S. Trugman. The Strothers now reside in Bozeman, Montana, and have a home on the Big Hole River near the unincorporated community of Wise River in Beaverhead County near Dillon, Montana.
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Cory and Joe travel to Minnesota to investigate the hauntings of Saint Henry's Poor farm. They uncover unusual forces, and great evidence. Watch to find out more....
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Courting Truth: Montana CourthouseTales
Missoula author Eric Olson shares stories from his new book, Courting Truth: Montana CourthouseTales. Olsen—a former trial lawyer with 35-years’ experience—used his considerable legal and investigative skills to track down and record historic tales relating to Montana courthouses that are funny, insightful, and sometimes thought-provoking. From the Presence of the Past lecture series. montanahistoricalsociety.org
Montana
Montana i/mɒnˈtænə/ is a state in the Western United States. The state's name is derived from the Spanish word montaña . Montana has several nicknames, none official, including Big Sky Country and The Treasure State, and slogans that include Land of the Shining Mountains and more recently The Last Best Place. Montana is ranked 4th in size, but 44th in population and 48th in population density of the 50 United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state, for a total of 77 named ranges that are part of the Rocky Mountains.
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Montana | Wikipedia audio article
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Montana
00:01:28 1 Etymology and naming history
00:02:51 2 Geography
00:03:37 2.1 Topography
00:08:38 2.1.1 Rivers, lakes and reservoirs
00:09:25 2.1.1.1 Pacific Ocean drainage basin
00:10:22 2.1.1.2 Gulf of Mexico drainage basin
00:12:23 2.1.1.3 Hudson Bay drainage basin
00:12:46 2.1.1.4 Lakes and reservoirs
00:13:38 2.2 Flora and fauna
00:15:21 2.3 Protected lands
00:18:14 2.4 Climate
00:24:11 2.5 Antipodes
00:24:37 3 History
00:27:23 3.1 Montana territory
00:28:48 3.2 Conflicts
00:31:16 3.3 Cattle ranching
00:32:10 3.4 Railroads
00:33:48 3.5 Statehood
00:35:03 3.6 Homesteading
00:39:40 3.7 Montana and World War I
00:44:11 3.8 Depression era
00:44:41 3.9 Montana and World War II
00:46:42 3.10 Other military
00:47:38 3.11 Cold War Montana
00:48:57 4 Demographics
00:51:17 4.1 Intrastate demographics
00:55:11 4.2 Language
00:57:09 4.3 Religion
00:58:05 4.4 Native Americans
01:01:07 4.5 Birth data
01:01:34 5 Economy
01:03:33 6 Education
01:03:42 6.1 Colleges and universities
01:03:51 6.2 Schools
01:06:10 7 Culture
01:07:55 7.1 Major cultural events
01:09:27 7.2 Sports
01:09:35 7.2.1 Professional sports
01:10:08 7.2.2 College sports
01:10:42 7.2.3 Other sports
01:11:17 7.2.4 Olympic competitors
01:12:31 7.2.5 Sporting achievements
01:13:22 7.3 Outdoor recreation
01:13:46 7.3.1 Fishing and hunting
01:15:18 7.3.2 Winter sports
01:17:37 8 Health
01:18:08 9 Media
01:19:16 10 Transportation
01:21:33 11 Law and government
01:21:43 11.1 Constitution
01:25:31 11.2 State government: Executive
01:27:43 11.3 State government: Legislative
01:28:33 11.4 State government: Judicial
01:33:51 11.5 Federal offices and courts
01:37:26 12 Politics
01:41:07 13 Cities and towns
01:42:50 14 State symbols
01:46:23 15 See also
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Montana ( (listen)) is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including Big Sky Country and The Treasure State, and slogans that include Land of the Shining Mountains and more recently The Last Best Place.Montana is the 4th largest in area, the 8th least populous, and the 3rd least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state. In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands. Montana is bordered by Idaho to the west, Wyoming to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the north.
The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, hard rock mining, and lumber. The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state's economy.
The state's fastest-growing sector is tourism. Nearly 13 million tourists annually visit Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, the Beartooth Highway, Flathead Lake, Big Sky Resort, and other attractions.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Montana ( (listen)) is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including Big Sky Country and The Treasure State, and slogans that include Land of the Shining Mountains and more recently The Last Best Place.Montana is the 4th largest in area, the 8th least populous, and the 3rd least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state. In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands. Montana is bordered by Idaho to the west, Wyoming to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the north.
The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, hard rock mining, and lumber. The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state's economy.
The state's fastest-growing sector is tourism. Nearly 13 million tourists annually visit Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, the Beartooth Highway, Flathead Lake, Big Sky Resort, and other attractions.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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SUMMARY
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Montana ( (listen)) is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including Big Sky Country and The Treasure State, and slogans that include Land of the Shining Mountains and more recently The Last Best Place.Montana is the 4th largest in area, the 8th least populous, and the 3rd least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state. In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands. Montana is bordered by Idaho to the west, Wyoming to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the north.
The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, hard rock mining, and lumber. The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state's economy.
The state's fastest-growing sector is tourism. Nearly 13 million tourists annually visit Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, the Beartooth Highway, Flathead Lake, Big Sky Resort, and other attractions.
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