Award-winning journalist Skylar Browning and researcher Jeremy Watterson reveal Montana's relationship with America's favorite pastime from 1866 to the present day. The two authors of a recently published book of the same title discuss the fights, booze, cheating, and gambling that fueled the state's first professional league in 1892; the star-studded barnstorming tours and threats of bloodshed that marked the turn of the twentieth century; and the ways in which Montana players who made their way to big league diamonds helped change the sport on and off the field.

Award-winning journalist Skylar Browning and researcher Jeremy Watterson reveal Montana's relationship with America's favorite pastime from 1866 to the present day. The two authors of a recently published book of the same title discuss the fights, booze, cheating, and gambling that fueled the state's first professional league in 1892; the star-studded barnstorming tours and threats of bloodshed that marked the turn of the twentieth century; and the ways in which Montana players who made their way to big league diamonds helped change the sport on and off the field.

Award-winning journalist Skylar Browning and researcher Jeremy Watterson reveal Montana's relationship with America's favorite pastime from 1866 to the present day. The two authors of a recently published book of the same title discuss the fights, booze, cheating, and gambling that fueled the state's first professional league in 1892; the star-studded barnstorming tours and threats of bloodshed that marked the turn of the twentieth century; and the ways in which Montana players who made their way to big league diamonds helped change the sport on and off the field.

Award-winning journalist Skylar Browning and researcher Jeremy Watterson reveal Montana's relationship with America's favorite pastime from 1866 to the present day. The two authors of a recently published book of the same title discuss the fights, booze, cheating, and gambling that fueled the state's first professional league in 1892; the star-studded barnstorming tours and threats of bloodshed that marked the turn of the twentieth century; and the ways in which Montana players who made their way to big league diamonds helped change the sport on and off the field.

Dr. Pamela Stewart, Arizona State University, details how Gittings—who served as director of the University of Arizona’s Department of Physical Education and Athletics from 1920 to 1954—devoted her career to “educating the body” and used physical education as a path to gender equality. During Gittings’s time in Montana, she not only directed women’s physical education at the University of Montana, but also homesteaded and advocated to keep her position at UM while she served in Turkey at the close of World War I.

Montana State University doctoral student Jill Falcon Makin (Ojibwe) looks at the contributions of native knowledge to the 1872–1876 survey of the U.S.–Canadian boundary line.

Gallatin History Museum director Bill Jones discusses the legendary Bozeman pioneer and entrepreneur who is credited with bringing the first Texas cattle to Montana Territory in 1866. The ambitious businessman invested in milling, ranching, banking, and real estate and, for his family home, built Bozeman’s first true mansion, an imposing 1888 Second Empire–style residence that sat for fifty-two years on Main Street.

Preservation architect Leslie Gilmore explores the history and architecture of the lodge, which has served Bozeman’s Masons for the past 125 years. The evolution of the building’s architecture since its construction in 1890 represents both the lodge’s desire to keep up with changing styles (evident elsewhere on Main Street) and an economic response to the building’s maintenance needs. That evolution continues, as currently planned alterations reflect the lodge’s desire to have a building that is both more visible and more in keeping with Bozeman’s historic Main Street.

University of Montana Native American Studies professor Richmond Clow examines the environmental and cultural issues at play in the complicated territorial conflict between the Lakota and Crow over the Powder River Country and the ways in which the U.S. government engaged with both parties in the Fort Laramie treaties of 1851 and 1868.

The town of Cinnabar, Montana, no longer exists, but when it did, it served as the immediate railroad gateway for a generation of visitors to Yellowstone National Park. When the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town in 1883, Cinnabar became the jumping-off point for visitors on their journey into “Wonderland.” Yellowstone National Park historian and prolific author Lee Whittlesey brings this Wild West town, and the heyday of railroad tourism, back to life.