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72000740. Added to NRHP. 26 October 1972. The Western Heritage Center is a regional museum located in historic downtown Billings, Montana, United States. The museum is housed in the historic Parmly Billings Memorial Library, built in 1901. The building is a stately Richardsonian Romanesque structure with twin towers, listed on the National ...
Joe Medicine Crow. Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 – April 3, 2016) was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.
Zooey Zephyr. Zooey Simone Zephyr (born August 29, 1988) is an American politician and university administrator who represents Missoula in the 100th district in the Montana House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected in the 2022 election, making her the first openly transgender person to be elected to the Montana ...
William Walter "Bill" Mercer (born 1964) is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Montana House of Representatives from the 46th district. [1] He previously served as the United States Attorney for the District of Montana, as well as principal associate deputy attorney general for the United States Department of Justice. [2]
William Roderick James (June 6, 1892 – September 3, 1942) [ 1] was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal, [ 2] and numerous "cowboy" stories for adults and children. His artwork, which predominantly involved cowboy and rodeo scenes ...
30-06550. GNIS feature ID. 802034 [ 2] Highways. Website. www .billingsmt .gov. Billings is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. [ 4] Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area ...
In spite of Montana's location in the Wild West, only one hanging, in 1918, is known to have taken place at the Yellowstone County Jail. [1] Operating in a region where the established museums emphasized Western genre art and historic artifacts, staff and volunteer leadership early on defined an alternate, wide-ranging mission.
5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) [ 1] Patricia Bernadette Meehan ( / ˈmiːən /; November 1, 1951 – disappeared April 20, 1989) is an American woman who disappeared following a car crash on Montana Highway 200 near Circle, Montana. Investigators initially suspected Meehan had fled the scene out of fear or was suffering from amnesia as a result of head trauma.