TALKING TRAIL

Did you know the Frontier Gateway Museum is located on the Montana Dinosaur Trail? The museum has edmontosaurus, Thescleosaurus, and Triceratops...

General Stores were born out of necessity during the frontier days, for many pioneers who lived outside of urban markets. Many of the owners of general stores got...

Welcome to the Golden Valley Schoolhouse–one of three original buildings this are part of the Frontier Gateway Museum complex. Records show that the school...

One of the perks that goes with a local history museum is the unexpected bits and pieces of information supplied by visitors. This is true for the restored windmill...

Before the 1800s, most peoples living in what is now Montana patterned life according to “seasonal rounds,” moving camp along well-established routes...

Following the defeat of George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry Division at the Battle of Little Bighorn, The United States waged a ruthless campaign against...

While the Western Frontier is often viewed as a masculine territory, thousands of women were among the early settlers who moved across the Great...

Rancher and banker, Charles Krug, came west from Ohio in 1878, searching for opportunity and a climate to relieve his sister Emma’s asthma...

As you take a walk across the 1,352 foot span of the Bell Street Bridge, you might imagine a time when this bridge had not yet been constructed. In 1882...

Had you been standing where you are now before or shortly after the turn of the 20th Century, you might very well be casting your gaze on a steamboat meandering...

So why is there this small park with a fountain, where Bell Street, Douglas Street and Meade Avenue come together here in Glendive? Well the idea was brought up...

Welcome to Makoshika State Park, what many consider to be “the jewel of Eastern Montana.” With 11,531 acres, Makoshika is Montana’s largest state park.

Catharine Calk McCarty, born into an aristocratic Kentucky family, followed relatives to Montana. Although she had taken secretarial courses by...

Hi, I’m Pamela Harr. Welcome to the Glendive Talking Trail. In 1981, I was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, for my...

On August 1st, 1806, a yachting party consisting of Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, six of his men, and Sacajawea and her child...

Welcome to the Frontier Gateway Museum! Take a step back in time, and explore a variety of entertaining and educational exhibits spanning...

The Crow and Hidatsa are Siouan people who traded with each other along the Yellowstone River. The Hidatsa language is related to that of the Crow, and they

Glendive took root as a steamboat landing on the Yellowstone River and as a railroad center in the middle of prime stock country. When the Northern Pacific reached...

Former Confederate General Thomas L. Rosser was the chief engineer for construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad from Bismarck through...

Nestled here at the corner of the Frontier Gateway Museum land, is a large piece of mobile artillery. Originally manufactured in France, the 155 mm 1917 field gun...