Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas.Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front.At ...

Montana history buffs chose tragedy over beauty in the finals of an online “Montana Madness” contest. The wooden lid of a dynamite box with the last words of a doomed miner scrawled in chalk captured ...

Montana history’s version of March Madness has come down to a Charlie Russell masterpiece and a few dying words scrawled on the lid of a dynamite box. For full descriptions and historical context go ...

BILLINGS — Jake McNeish, 39, had just come off the night shift at the Smith Mine near Bearcreek and was probably home when he may have heard a siren announcing that something terrible had happened at ...

The underground day-shift crew of 77 miners went into the Smith Mine west of Bearcreek at 8 a.m. on Feb. 27, 1943. A little after 9:30 a.m., something set off an explosion of methane gas, which ...

Massachusetts-based writer Susan Kushner Resnick stumbled onto the story of the Smith Mine disaster while on a family vacation to Montana.

Montana Department of Transportation Historian Jon Axline will present “Graven Images: The Bearcreek Cemetery and the Smith Mine Disaster” from 10:45 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the Montana ...