There ought to be a Daughters of Montana Homesteaders group. In the 151 years since the inception of the Homestead Act, there have been more than 2 million homestead claims. And each claim was ...

WILDER — The hand-hewn logs of the Wartzenluft homestead help tell the story of a father and son who left Illinois for the rugged Missouri Breaks during Montana's homestead boom. And these days the ...

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte extended the application deadline for Homestead and Long-Term Rental Reduced Property Tax ...

Congress passed the Enlarged Homestead Act, which would have a dramatic and lasting effect on Montana. The original Free Homestead Law, passed in 1862, offered free quarter-sections of 160 acres to ...

Zane Fulbright’s grandfather, Bill, appears to be the only one of nine children and two parents who is smiling in the 1915 Rufus Otho Fulbright family photo, posed in front of their homestead north ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Greg Gianforte has touted the property tax bills he signed after last year’s Montana legislative session as a tax cut for the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A log house carrying memories from the homesteading days of Montana merged into traffic and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Marilyn Alke's photography of Montana Homesteads will be displayed at the Bozeman Public Library ...

Moose Monitoring: FWP study provides insight on Montana populations Moose were nearly exterminated in Montana in the early 1900s, with their population estimated to have numbered around 100 animals.

It's here somewhere. Simanton relatives look for traces of the original 1913 homestead in northeastern Montana during a 100- year reunion last month. (David Stabler) When the road ends, we drive on ...