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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUM2_an-unlikely-safe-haven_Saltese-MT.html
"Fires of yesterday and last night have swept practically all the country from Avery to St. Regis. Nothing could have lived in the mountains last evening except for the tunnels." - E. J. Pearson, Chief Engineer, Puget Sound Railroad
Fleeing fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUM1_douse-the-flames-and-climb-aboard_Saltese-MT.html
"The whole twenty-five miles of railroad?between Avery and the Taft Tunnel was swept by a consuming blast of fire, so hot that pick handles lying in the open beside the track were utterly consumed." - Elers Koch, Forest Supervisor
With fires ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUM0_building-from-the-ashes_Saltese-MT.html
"All that remained was to salvage what material that could be salvaged from the disaster, and reorganize for a new start." - Clarence B. Swim, Assistant Forester
As the railroad operated rescue trains, Missoula residents met the refugees at the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMULZ_when-the-mountains-roared_Saltese-MT.html
"The fire by this time was an awe-inspiring spectacle, the whole horizon to the west was aflame and the noise caused by the falling timber was terrific." - Roy A. Phillips, Lolo Forest Guard
One of the most devastating fire seasons in the histo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMULX_a-battle-that-could-not-be-won_Saltese-MT.html
"With the cinders and ashes falling all around him, and so dark that he could not see his horse's head at three o'clock in the afternoon, [Barringer] rode up to the face of the fire?[and] collected his scattered crews?." - Elers Koch, Forest Super…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMULV_pluck-and-good-fortune_Saltese-MT.html
"I won't die here in this creek? [I'm] getting out of here." - Pinkie Adair, homesteader and camp cook
During the 1910 Fires, perseverance often meant the difference between life and death. At 26 years old, Ione "Pinkie" Adair could ride, shoot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJP_w-a-talmage-company-hardware_Red-Lodge-MT.html
A keen sense of the town's future prompted businessman William Talmage to move his hardware business away from the busy commercial center a few blocks south to this building in 1894. When other businesses began to move to the newly platted main st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJO_plunketts-hardware_Red-Lodge-MT.html
High transom windows that provide interior light for a mezzanine commercial display area are an interesting design feature of this well-constructed commercial building. The simple chain-patterned ornamentation of buff brick across the tall parapet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJL_picket-block_Red-Lodge-MT.html
Designed by Red Lodge carpenter and amateur architect Frank A. Sell and built by W. T. Pernham in 1902, this impressive brick commercial building was home to the Red Lodge Picket and, after 1918, the Picket-Journal, the primary news sources for th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJK_neithammer-brothers-meat-market_Red-Lodge-MT.html
German-born Victor and Otto Neithammer first established their meat market on North Broadway in 1912, raising their own livestock to supply this and other local family-run stores. Because the Neithammers' employees represented many ethnic groups, …