The Extreme History Project

Give Big Gallatin Valley is a a 24-hour celebration of giving to connect generous community members with causes they care about most in Gallatin Valley.  

Give Big funds are critical for Extreme History, in that they help us bring history to the public in fun, engaging and relevant ways. If you’ve been on Extreme History’s walking tours, listened to a Dirt on the Past Podcast, watched the documentary, The Story of Us: The Women who Shaped Montana, attended a lecture, participated in a workshop, or enjoyed History after Dark consider supporting us this year.

CLICK HERE TO GIVE BIG TO HISTORY!

For Give Big this year, Team Extreme (a group of VERY dedicated individuals including our Board of Directors, volunteers, and friends of Extreme History including Gilmore Franzen Consulting LLC) have provided a $5,000 match. That means every dollar you donate will be matched up to $5k, doubling your donation so give early!  

Also . . .

Our Give Big donor lounge will be at Treeline Coffee (136 W. Main) from noon to 4pm on Friday, May 3rd. We are excited to host historic walking tours from the Treeline location, see the schedule below. Tours are free of charge, but we encourage you to make a Give Big Donation to Extreme History!

And . . .  Treeline Coffee will donate a percentage of sales from noon to 4pm to Extreme History so have a drink and learn some history!

CLICK HERE TO GIVE

We need history and a connection to our community’s past now more ever. By understanding where we’ve been, we can better understand what’s happening now, in our present. 

Thank you for your continued support of The Extreme History Project, and thank you for Giving Big Gallatin Valley!

Friday, May 3rd Tours starting at Treeline Coffee located at 136 W. Main, next to the Lark. Free and open to the public!

1pm – Historic Tin Ceilings with Crystal Alegria

2pm – Main Street Gems with Travis Carioscia

3pm – Masonic Hall Makeover with Lesley Gilmore

4pm – Historic Saloons with Maryrose Hicko

We’re excited for 2024 and all the history it will hold! Here’s what’s coming up in the next couple of months. Hope you can join us for one or all of these events.

February 1, 6pm – Extreme History Online Book Club. We’ll be discussing All that She Carried by Tiya Miles. Click here for more information and to register.

February 4, 2-4pm – Lino Block Printmaking Class with Kelly Hartman of Studio 308. Explore the art of Lino Block Printmaking at The Extreme History Project! Join us on February 4th from 2-4pm at 234 E. Mendenhall Street for a creative journey led by Kelly Hartman, owner of Studio 308.
In this two-hour class, you’ll delve into the basics of lino block printing. Discover the magic of transferring a provided design, carving a stamp, and mastering various printing techniques. Craft your own unique vintage-inspired Valentines cards for your friends and family! This class is perfect for both beginners and those looking to enhance their printmaking skills. All materials provided. Registration required. Limited class size. Click here for more information and to register.

February 6 – Illuminating the Shadowed World of Bozeman’s Historic Red-Light District Exhibit Opening. Watch this space for more information coming soon!

February 7, 6pm – American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail. Montana State University’s Department of History and The Extreme History Project invite you to an evening with Sarah Keyes as she discusses her new book, American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail on February 7th at 6pm in the Procrastinator Theater in MSU’s Strand Union Building. Free and open to the public. Her book will be available for sale.

February 13, 1-3pm. Extreme History Stitch and Sew-ciety. Join the Extreme Stitch and Sew-ciety for tea, cookies, and conversation as we work on our personal projects. Bring your needlework projects including mending, embroidery, tapestry, cross stitch and more to work on. If you have anything that is a modern or vintage project to share, bring it along as well. Our one restriction is no glues and paints. Hope to see you there for an afternoon of merriment and camaraderie. At the Extreme History headquarters located at 234 E. Mendenhall Street in Downtown Bozeman.

We are very grateful to those who have given to our End of Year Campaign, we could not do any of this without your support! Your dollars help us provide you with quality history programming. We ask you to donate $25, $50, $100 or more to help us bring history to you in 2024.

Thanks in advance, we appreciate your support and depend on it!  

To Donate Click Here

Looking back on the year –  Our historic walking tours, lecture series, publications, The Dirt on the Past podcast, presentations, workshops, online Book Club, and our documentary work covered a wide variety of topics meant to inform and provoke further thought and discussion.

Our Symbolism and Preservation Cemetery Workshop in Deer Lodge, MT co-hosted by the Foundation for Montana History and the Old Montana Prison Museum was a hit! Classroom discussions and presentations by notable experts preceded a tour and scavenger hunt held in the local cemetery. An After Life party hosted by the Longfellow Finnegan Riddle funeral home in Anaconda capped off the event.

Passionate volunteers started our Extreme Stitch and Sew-ciety which helped enhance our period appropriate costuming as we strutted in the Sweet Pea Parade and as our History After Dark “ghosts” told their stories.

Again this year, we were honored to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples’ Day Montana and screen the docuseries, Murder in Bighorn which focused on missing and murdered Indigenous women.  

We’ve partnered with the Museum of the Rockies to expand our podcast, The Dirt on the Past to video using the Museum’s new studio space and featuring artifacts from the Museum’s collections. This is called The Dirt on the Past: Museum Edition

Looking forward to 2024 — We will continue to bring you all the programs and events you have come to love along with new and innovative programming, exhibits, and films!

We are working on the second and third episodes of our Emmy nominated, The Story of Us: The Women Who Shaped Montana, a film series that tells the stories of Montana’s historic women that will air on Montana PBS in 2024 and 2025.

We will install a new exhibit on Bozeman’s historic Red-Light District in our headquarters building in January so watch for that!

We will co-host another cemetery workshop – this year in Butte so stay tuned!

Our work in the area of historic preservation will remain a critical focus in light of the current city development with the hope of encouraging community discussion and participation.

And so much more . . . !

But, to do this work we need you. Please understand how much your participation in our events, your purchases in our Extreme History Gift Shop and used Book Shop and your donations mean to us. To put it plainly, without your support, The Extreme History Project would no longer exist.

Your support is what keeps our door open and our research and interpretation ongoing. Our pledge is to always strive to give you meaningful, relevant programming!

Thanks again for appreciating our work, being our champions and supporting us with your donations, we appreciate you!

To Support Extreme History Click Here

Sincerely,

Crystal Alegria and Team Extreme

By donating to The Extreme History Project today, you will help us continue our mission to bring history to the public in fun, engaging and relevant ways. If you enjoy our programming and appreciate our work in the community, we ask you support us with a gift of $20, $40 or $100. This would help us maintain our walking tours, lectures, podcast, workshops, book club, publications, research, and so much more!

As we like to say, History Isn’t Pretty, but it is important and history in the community is essential as it preserves and celebrates our unique traditions, shared experiences, and collective identity and fosters a sense of belonging to this place we call home.

Thank you for considering a gift to Extreme History today, we truly appreciate your support!
With our sincere thanks,
Crystal Alegria (Director) and Team Extreme

A Docuseries Screening of ‘Murder in Bighorn’
Episode One

With Filmmakers
Ivan Macdonald and Ivy Macdonald
Reception to follow

• When: Thursday, October 19th at 5:30pm
• Where: Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies

Join us, along with producers Ivy and Ivan MacDonald to view a powerful portrait of tribal members and their communities within Big Horn County, Montana battling an epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) that has been prevalent since colonization. The three-part docuseries examines the circumstances surrounding many of these cases, told solely through the perspectives of those involved: Native families, Native journalists, and local law enforcement officers.

Thank you to our sponsors:

• The City of Bozeman
• Bozeman Health
• The Museum of the Rockies
• MSU Earth Sciences Department
• MSU School of Film and Photography
• Mountain Time Arts

As always, this event is free and open to the public.
We look forward to seeing you there!