Adventure Through Time

05/02/2023

Extreme History will be at Mōka Boutique for our donor lounge this Friday, May 5th! We'll be offering mini historic walking tours of downtown Bozeman (see schedule below) Tours are FREE but we encourage donations to Extreme History which will be matched up to $2k by Mōka Boutique! All tours begin at Moka (36 W. Main Street). Tours will last 20-30 minutes. No registration required, just show up at the appropriate time! Hope you can join us and GIVE BIG for HISTORY!

12/17/2022

George and Elmyra Frazier, early Bozeman residents, opened the City Hotel in partnership with John Bozeman on Christmas Day in 1866 on Bozeman's Main Street. Learn more about the Frazier family, their hotels and early Bozeman history! Click to read or pick up a copy of the Bozeman Magazine!

If you walked down Bozeman’s Main Street on Christmas Day in 1866, you would witness the opening celebration of the City Hotel. The first formal hotel in Bozeman, it was owned and operated by George and Elmyra Frazier along with their business partner, John M. Bozeman.The opening celebration,

11/11/2022

Pop-up Used Book Sale at Extreme The Extreme History Project, Sat. Nov 12 from Noon to 5pm!

07/11/2022

A great article on the historic Life of Montana building in Bozeman, MT. Written by Extreme History board member, Lesley Gilmore!

“Life of Montana” conjures something larger than life and bigger than Montana. Although the Life of Montana Insurance Company was not too big to fail, its signature building at the outskirts of Bozeman remains as testimony to the aspirations it fulfilled. The

06/15/2022

This is the Carbella Bridge, which was knocked down by Yellowstone River floodwaters on June 13.
It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Local legend has it that Carbella was named for two ranch women who settled in the area in the early 1900s: Cary D'Wart on the Dome Mountain Ranch east of the Yellowstone River, and Belle Stewart who established a homestead with her husband Alex west of the river.
Some fast facts from the historic register document, which was created in 2009 by Jon Axline, a wonderful historian with the Montana Department of Transportation.
- 14 miles northwest of Gardiner
- Is a single-span bridge, 176 feet long, 16 feet wide, with roadway width of 15 feet.
- Rests on concrete abutments.
- - Built in 1918.
Park County replaced the timber deck and guardrails in 2008.
The bridge was built shortly after the National Park Service started allowing automobiles into Yellowstone.
It was the last bridge in Montana built using “Pratt” trusses. By 1918, riveted Warren trusses were recommended; it’s unclear why the Park County Commissioners ignored the state’s process for overseeing the construction of new bridges in Montana.
The county commissioners approved putting the abutments in 1918 at “no less than four feet above the high water mark.” It was “completed in late May 1918; between June 11 and July 7, 1918, the Yellowstone River reached it’s highest historically recorded water level. The new Carbella Bridge survived the flood, but every Yellowstone River bridge downriver in Park County was either destroyed or damaged,” according to Axline.
Read more about it here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71975267

06/10/2022

The Extreme History Project is a nonprofit that makes history relevant. We are located in a historic building in the heart of downtown Bozeman, Montana. We bring history to the public in fun, engaging and relevant ways including historic walking tours, workshops, lecture series, book club, and much....

05/28/2022

Come on a walk with The Extreme History Project while we explore Bozeman’s historic Main Street.

05/27/2022

Tonight!

Bozeman’s darker history comes to light in an Extreme History Project walking tour designed to send a shiver up your spine.

04/15/2022

Cabinets of Curiosity!!