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The Blackfeet reservation today is located in northern Montana adjacent to Glacier National Park. Prior to the reservation era, the Blackfoot were fiercely independent and highly successful warriors whose territory stretched from the North Saskatchewan River along what is now Edmonton , Alberta in Canada, to the Yellowstone River of Montana ...
The Territory of Montana was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26, 1864, [1] until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted as the 41st state in the Union as the state of Montana.
The State of Montana creates Garfield County and Treasure County. [11] 1918: November 11: An armistice halts the Great War. 1917: April 6: The United States declares war on the German Empire and enters the Great War. February 22: The State of Montana creates Carter County and Wheatland County. [11] 1916: August 25
The history of Missoula, Montana begins as early as 12,000 years ago with the end of the region's glacial lake period with western exploration dating back to the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. The first permanent settlement was founded in 1860.
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.
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 ...
John Merin Bozeman (January 1835 – April 20, 1867) was an American pioneer and frontiersman in the American West who helped establish the Bozeman Trail through Wyoming Territory into the gold fields of southwestern Montana Territory in the early 1860s. He helped found the city of Bozeman, Montana, in 1864, which is named for him.
Montana (/ m ɒ n ˈ t æ n ə / ⓘ mon-TAN-ə) [7] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.It borders Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north.