Oxbow Ranch News Today

The 22nd annual Choteau Ranch Rodeo, which features teams of area ranchers pitted against local livestock, is set for Saturday, Sept. 2, with a Calcutta auction at noon, followed by

If there’s one newspaper-allowable word to describe the kind of people drawn to ranching life in Montana, it’s “ornery.”

The historic wagon trail has been known as the Bitterroot Trail, the Missoula-Skalkaho Road, and the Missoula to Stevensville Road. It was petitioned in 1867 and the survey was allegedly accepted by the county in 1868.

The road was established as a trail between Stevensville and Missoula as early as the 1860s but — as some contend — it was never recorded as an official road.

In the summer of 1972, U.S. newspaper headlines were dominated by the Watergate burglary and the growing political scandal that would ultimately end the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.

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