Missoula, Montana

Navigating the roadways in Montana can be challenging. Drivers must share the streets with cyclists, pedestrians and wildlife. Collisions with wildlife are common in the fall, but a collision can happen any time of year. Staying Safe on the Roadways Wild animals can leave the woods and stray onto interstates and highways. When animals are frightened by roaring engines and bright headlights, their behavior can become erratic and unpredictable. According to a recent vehicle accident report,…

Crow (1986) James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on Indian territory on November 18, 1940. For the majority of his early life, Welch lived and studied within Native American cultures. Welch was very familiar with the ways of the Native Americans. His father was a member of the Blackfeet tribe and his mother belonged to the Gros Ventre tribe, Welch lived the majority of his early life in his hometown and later attended the University of Montana…

aunts. and uncles. but the cousins were the majority). It was… interesting. We started off bright and early (well, not very early; some people decided to stay up late) from the campgrounds we had slept in the previous night. (In case you didn’t know, Montana gets really, really cold at night. Even if it normally doesn’t become quite so frigid, it did that night. I was not prepared and froze while my over-prepared tent mate of a cousin boiled in her-older brother’s-fancy sleeping bag.) From…

I chose the source titled “Masao Takahashi Describes Incarceration at the Missoula, Montana, Department of Justice Detention Center.” The source is a written testimony by Masao Takahashi, a Japanese man that was arrested after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This testimony was at Takahashi’s Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) hearing in Seattle, on September 10, 1981. Takahashi was one of the thousands of testimonies given by the Japanese that were heard by the…

being categorized as a “victim”, is not what one may hope for. Yet, there is always a possibility that the victim may not report this horrific crime. In the book Missoula, we hear the stories of brave young women who came forward to tell their stories. Yet,what makes these cases so appalling is how they were handled. In the town of Missoula, football players are worshipped and treated as royalty. Even though they commit these horrific crimes, they are portrayed as untouchable. Some may even say…

in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area of the Helena National Forest in Montana. Thirteen young firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers unit died in a sudden blow up of a fire on the north ridge of Mann Gulch, trapped by the fire that had outflanked them. After his retirement as a professor at the University of Chicago, Montana writer Norman Maclean spent the last fourteen years of his life researching…

Jon Krakauer tells of how a close friend of his wife and himself had been twice sexually assaulted by someone they knew. Shocked Jon Krakauer seeks to find out more about these occurrences and this leads him to Missoula, Montana, the titular town of the book and how it came to be known as “The Rape Capital” of the United States. He begins by explaining the importance of college football to this community and how the pride they took in the sport led to the veneration of star athletes. He…

Jon Krakauer’s Missoula has shone a bright light on a dark sector of American law. The American legal system exists to protect American citizens from harmful or unlawful acts, and by most reasonable metrics, it accomplishes this goal. However, socio-legal scholars have noticed a peculiar phenomenon that has set in over a long period of time, where an especially egregious crime – rape – has continued to go under the radar, with its perpetrators going mysteriously unpunished. Missoula sparked a…

LaBrava David M. LaBrava, who acted the role of Happy in Sons of Anarchy, has one of the most dramatic pasts for a SoA character. Back in 2008, the actor, who belongs to the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was taken into custody, while staying at a Missoula, Montana hotel. He was arrested after some people reported to the Sheriff Deputies he was keeping a woman in his hotel room without her consent. According to the report of the Missoulian, while trying to investigate the alleged assault, the…

With Montana being her home state, she decided to take her stand there. When she spoke in front of the legislature, many were surprised at how well she spoke. After this, she lived in New York for a short time and worked for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, but then ended back up in Montana to help organize a campaign for women 's suffrage in the year of 1914. When World War Two occurred…