A woman shooting a gun, next to two other women seated in front of a cabin at the Johnson Place near the Swan River, circa 1900. It is now the Kootenai Lodge. (courtesy of the Northwest Montana History Museum)
April 30, 2023
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Women settlers brought community to the Flathead Valley
Women and their labor were vital to many aspects of life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some accounts from history might have you believe they were not in NorthWest Montana at all, but slowly and surely they made their way out West.