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Montana's history was heavily dominated by its "Copper Kings". Marcus Daly (1841–1900), an Irish immigrant, left a legacy of physical structures throughout Montana. Starting with his development of the Alice mine in Butte, he then founded the community of Anaconda where he built a smelter.
The act of Congress of 1864 creating Montana, known as the Organic Act, [6] prescribed a somewhat standard organization for the territorial government of Montana. It established executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government, however, the federal government held a dominant role in administering the new territory.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the Constitution of the United States was ratified on March 4, 1789. An enlargeable map of the United States after the secret Third Treaty of San Ildefonso transferred the Spanish colony of la Luisiana to the French Republic on October 1, 1800.
The French Republic turns its colony of La Louisiane over to the United States. All land in the future State of Montana in the Missouri River watershed becomes unorganized United States territory. April 30: The United States and the French Republic sign the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. 1800: October 1
On May 29, 2012, the first episode of American Colony: Meet the Hutterites aired on the National Geographic Channel. Filmed primarily at King Ranch Colony near Lewistown, Montana, with Jeff Collins as executive producer, the colony was paid $100,000 for permission to produce a documentary of Hutterite life. Immediately after the first airing ...
Founded by a group led by William Houlton and John King. 1654: Pelham: New York: United States: Founded by Thomas Pell, who purchased 9,000 acres (14 sq mi) from the Siwanoy tribe and received a land grant from the English crown. 1655: Cap-Saint-Ignace: Quebec: Canada [24] 1655: Chelmsford: Massachusetts: United States: Founded by settlers from ...
July – Montana Stockgrowers Association established by major ranch owners to deal with rustling and vigilantism on the open range. [83] September 3 – The Anaconda Copper Mining Company opens a copper smelter in Anaconda, Montana. [84] September 11 – The Society of Montana Pioneers was founded in Helena. James Fergus was elected the first ...
The Montana Historical Society, founded on February 2, 1865, in Virginia City, is the oldest such institution west of the Mississippi (excluding Louisiana). [25] In 1869 and 1870 respectively, the Cook–Folsom–Peterson and the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expeditions were launched from Helena into the Upper Yellowstone region.