Montana—“Big Sky Country”—is also known as “The Treasure State.” Montana officially became our 41st state in 1889, but there were newspapers published in Montana Territory decades before it achieved statehood.
Photo: Montana’s Sun River. Credit: Wikipedia.
GenealogyBank has coverage of Montana’s newspapers spanning 1866 to Today. Dig in and find the stories about your family as they pioneered early America, including cowboys, miners, teachers and kids. Discover the truth about your Montana ancestry in news articles, obituaries, historical documents and more in GenealogyBank’s vast online newspaper archives.
Use this handy list of Montana newspapers to quickly navigate to your title of interest:
| City | Newspaper | Coverage | Collection |
| Anaconda | Anaconda Standard | 1/2/1898 – 12/31/1922 | Newspaper Archives |
| Big Fork | West Shore News | 3/24/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Bigfork | Bigfork Eagle | 7/16/2004 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Billings | Billings Gazette | 10/2/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Bozeman | Bozeman Daily Chronicle | 6/4/1996 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Butte | Butte Weekly Miner | 1/2/1896 – 5/23/1901 | Newspaper Archives |
| Columbia Falls | Hungry Horse News | 7/13/2004 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Helena | Helena Independent | 1/1/1898 – 12/31/1900 | Newspaper Archives |
| Helena | Montana Herold | 5/4/1893 – 7/11/1901 | Newspaper Archives |
| Helena | Helena Weekly Herald | 11/15/1866 – 11/25/1869 | Newspaper Archives |
| Helena | Montana Radiator | 1/27/1866 – 10/13/1866 | Newspaper Archives |
| Helena | Independent Record | 10/2/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Kalispell | Daily Inter Lake | 9/23/2004 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Libby | Western News | 8/6/2004 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Missoula | NewWest | 3/10/2005 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Missoula | Missoulian | 10/2/2009 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Plains | Clark Fork Valley Press | 1/8/2008 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Polson | Lake County Leader & Advertiser | 12/3/2008 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Sidney | Sidney Herald | 1/12/2001 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
| Whitefish | Whitefish Pilot | 7/13/2004 – Current | Recent Obituaries |
