From a 1940 county vote to a national rodeo championship — Dawson Community College in Glendive, MT has spent 85 years proving that world-class education doesn't require a big city address. Here's how it happened.
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Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day — born from the grief of a nation after the Civil War. From graves adorned with flowers to a federal holiday, the story of how America learned to honor its fallen is older and more complicated than most people know.
Today we remember those who gave all!
Happy Memorial Day!!
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Montana’s Giant Springs pumps 156 million gallons a day from a 330-million-year-old aquifer — and feeds the world’s shortest river. Lewis and Clark were speechless. A silver smelter came and went. Then fifth-graders picked a fight with Oregon. The full story is wild.
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From Irish poverty to Montana royalty — Marcus Daly arrived in America with nothing and built a copper empire that literally created cities, bought elections, and reshaped an entire state. His rise from dock worker to mining titan is one of the wildest true stories the American West ever produced.
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BILLINGS — A massive dust storm swept through northeast Montana last week, closing highways, canceling schools and damaging structures, and experts warn events like this could escalate into conditions similar to the Dust Bowl era.
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Before GPS, before gold rush outlaws, before Lewis & Clark — one ancient rock ruled southwestern Montana. Sacagawea knew it. Road agents robbed near it. Prospectors may have buried gold beside it. But is the treasure legend real history or frontier folklore? The answer is more fascinating than any buried cache.
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In March 1944, Miles City, Montana faced a catastrophic flood — so the mayor called in a B-17 bomber to blow up the frozen Yellowstone River. Meanwhile, Japanese balloon bombs were silently drifting over Montana’s skies. Two forgotten WWII stories, one remarkable town. Click to read the full history.
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Before 1978, the nearest college was hundreds of miles from Montana’s Fort Peck Reservation. Then the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes did something about it. They built their own — and in doing so, reclaimed not just education, but language, culture, and the right to define what learning means for their people.
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Before oil ruled Montana, a cowboy roped a mountain lion on a creek near Winnett. Then in 1920, drillers struck liquid gold so pure it ran straight into Model T’s — for free. The boom created an entire county. Then it vanished. 23 million barrels later, barely 500 people remain.
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He bribed senators, bought newspapers, and built a 131-room mansion with Robin Hood’s oak panels. William Andrews Clark turned Montana’s copper into one of history’s greatest fortunes — then tried to buy a U.S. Senate seat. The scandal changed the Constitution. Meet the Gilded Age’s most audacious scoundrel you’ve never heard of.
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