Tag: Fort Missoula


  • The Iron Riders: Montana’s Bicycle Soldiers

    In the summer of 1897, twenty United States soldiers rolled out of Fort Missoula headed for St. Louis. On bicycles. Not motorcycles. Not modern touring bikes with lightweight frames, twenty-seven gears and seats engineered by somebody with strong feelings about lower-back support. Bicycles. And because this was the United States Army, naturally they weren’t allowed…