Hidden History of Helena, Montana

Hidden History of Helena, Montana

by Arcadia Publishing
Hidden History of Helena, Montana

Hidden History of Helena, Montana

by Arcadia Publishing

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Overview

Capital City Mystery and History

Distinguished by statesmen and magnates, Helena's history is colored with many other compelling characters and episodes nearly lost to time. Before achieving eminence in Deadwood, Sheriff Seth Bullock oversaw Montana Territory's first two legal hangings. The Seven Mile House was an oasis of vice for the parched, weary travelers entering the valley on the Benton Road, despite a tumultuous succession of ownership. The heritage of the Sieban Ranch and the saga of "King Kong" Clayton, "the Joe Louis of the Mat," faded from public memory.

From unraveling the myths of Chinatown to detailing the lives of red-light businesswomen and the Canyon Ferry flying saucer hoax, revered local historians Ellen Baumler and Jon Axline team up to preserve a compendium of Helena's yesteryear.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467144018
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 12/02/2019
Series: Hidden History
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,093,533
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Interpretive historian at the Montana Historical Society from 1992 to 2019, Ellen Baumler is a longtime member of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau, a 2011 recipient of the Governor's Award for the Humanities and an award-winning author. As author of five books on Montana history, contributor to Montana: The Magazine of Western History and Montana magazine and editor of Montana's historical highway markers, Jon Axline has been the historian at the Montana Department of Transportation since 1990.

Table of Contents

Introduction: More from the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch 9

1 Getting Here from There: Helena and the Benton Road 13

2 Stopping Along the Way at the Sieben Ranch 20

3 What's in a Photograph?: Bridge Street, 1865 26

4 Life and Death on the Frenchwoman's Road 31

5 Before There Was Deadwood 35

6 An Oasis of Questionable Virtue: Seven Mile House 39

7 Helena's Public Heart 44

8 Red-Light Businesswomen 49

9 Trouble with Neighbors: The House of the Good Shepherd 55

10 Was Helena Invaded by Hairy Aliens in 1976? 61

11 The Hanging of the Golden Lanterns: Nighttime Airway Beacons Surround the Capital City 65

12 They Shall Not Pass: The Ground Observer Corps and the Helena Filter Center 71

13 Planting the Seeds of Saint Peter's Hospital 76

14 Unraveling the Myths of Helena's Chinatown 81

15 The Joe Louis of the Mat: The Saga of "King Kong" Clayton 87

16 To Ornament the City: Jewish Landmarks 92

17 Building a Better Helena: The Southside Lime Kilns 98

18 Haunting on Hotter Street 104

19 The Great Canyon Ferry Flying Saucer Hoax 110

20 Bryant School's Unusual Friends 113

Bibliography 119

Index 123

About the Authors 127

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