Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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The recent Courier photo of Hugh Calderwood (Yesterday's Courier Memories, July 31), early lawman and philosopher, brings to mind a new acquisition of an old gun at the Valley County Pioneer Museum. Calderwood sold a Luger pistol, purportedly the one that killed The Pigeon-Toed Kid at Bonnabel’s Ranch on Poplar Creek near Richland in North Valley County in 1908, to a local young man in the mid-1930s. That family has now placed the Luger on display in the museum’s law enforcement exhibit. Cor...
Anna (Olson) and Elias Stensland, Norwegian immigrants to Valley County in 1908, could hardly have imagined the impact their family of four daughters would have on Northeast Montana stretching even to now – August 2013. Those four daughters – Agnes, Bertha, Elise and Gladys – have now been recognized by their respective families with the donation of a fine glass display case at the Valley County Pioneer Museum. Situated in the newly added foyer to the museum, the case will house temporary rotat...
Treasures galore await the curious-minded who enter the Valley County Pioneer Museum. Once again, there’s a book here you might savor. “Since the Days of the Buffalo – a History of Eastern Montana and the Kalfell Ranch” was written by Michael Bugenstein in 2013 and begins with this excerpt: “The climate is one of dramatic extremes. Rainfall is limited to an average of 10 to 12 inches annually, and when the rains do come, they are often torrential downpours. Generally, the vast landscape is dwarfed by a brilliant azure sky where summertim...
The Courier welcomes Kitty Lou Rusher to the Opinion page. She'll be writing a monthly column on treasures at the Valley County Pioneer Museum. A most interesting slender volume has been added to the archival collection of the Valley County Pioneer Museum. “The Gerspacher Brothers” chronicles the brothers' (Joe, Matt, Ed) arrivals to America (from Germany) up to the time each married. Wonderful photographs and postcard replications abound. A fascinating excerpt from a 1916 Glasgow Courier recounts that 34 of 51 applicants – including Matt...
