On the steps of Flathead High School, Bess Elliot Busey, Mabel Rich, May Trumper, Alice Butler White, Mr. Fault and Mr. Ketchum are photographed in 1908. (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.