Digitized Montana Newspapers
The Montana Historical Society retired its Montana Newspapers website (montananewspapers.org). Users visiting that website will be redirected here. All content previously available on Montana Newspapers is now accessible through our Public Access Portal.
Our digitized newspapers are available online via our Public Access Portal, Chronicling America, and various other sites. We have the most digitized newspapers available through our Onsite Portal, accessed in-person at the Library & Archives Reference Room.
View our newspapers index, available as a PDF or XLSX, to find out what newspapers are available and where to access them.
Onsite Portal
Other Sites
Montana newspapers on other sites:
Havre Daily News Archive (1929-present)
Copper Commando (1942-1945)
Google News Archive (various)
SmallTownPapers.com (various)
Content in Montana Newspapers
A searchable index to advertisers and advertisements in Montana newspapers spanning from 1869 to 1999. The index is in XLSX format and gives researchers the ability to sort and filter.
The Montana News Association produced pre-printed content for various Montana Newspapers from 1916-1942. Richard Merritt created an index on more than 8,500 cards in the 1980s, and MTHS staff digitized the cards and compiled the index into a searchable PDF in the 2010s.
A searchable index to articles found in The Missoulian from the mid-1970s to the present. Compiled and maintained by the Missoula Public Library.
We hold several printed newspaper indexes in the Library & Archives, including:
Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 1987-1998
Garfield County newspapers, 1913-1919
Great Falls Tribune, 1891-1922 & 1926-1932
Great Falls Tribune, 1934
Great Falls Tribune, 1987-1998
Havre Newspapers, 1893-1953
Yellowstone Journal, 1879-1900
