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Fort Missoula was established by the United States Army in 1877 on land that is now part of the city of Missoula, Montana, to protect settlers in Western Montana from possible threats from the Native American Indians, such as the Nez Perce.
Fort Missoula was established near Missoula, Montana as a permanent military post in 1877 in response to citizen concerns of conflict with local Native American tribes. In 1941 Fort Missoula was turned over to the "Department of Immigration and Naturalization" for use as an Alien Detention Center for non-military Italian men.
Fort Fizzle (historical), Missoula County, Montana, el. 3,383 feet (1,031 m) [31] Fort Fizzle is a wooden barricade on the Lolo Trail erected by Missoula volunteers to stop the advance of Chief Joseph during the Nez Perce War in 1877. The barricade failed when the Nez Perce climbed a steep ravine behind the ridge and bypassed the soldiers.
Missoula (/ m ɪ ˈ z uː l ʌ / ⓘ mih-ZOO-lə) is a city in and the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, United States.It is located along the Clark Fork River near its confluence with the Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers in western Montana and at the convergence of five mountain ranges, and thus it is often described as the "hub of five valleys". [8]
Teepees set up in modern-day Missoula south of the Clark Fork River, facing east. Today's Missoula lies at the bottom of what once was Glacial Lake Missoula, a 3,000-square-mile (7,800 km 2) proglacial lake which stretched from 60 miles (97 km) south and east of Missoula north to today's Flathead Lake and west to Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille.
"Death of a Small Business: The Missoula Brewing Company," Montana, March 1988, Vol. 38 Issue 1, pp 54–61; Lonnquist, Lois (2006). Fifty Cents an Hour: The Builders and Boomtowns of the Fort Peck Dam. Helena, Montana: MtSky Press. ISBN 0-9786963-0-1. Morris, Patrick F. (1997). Anaconda Montana: Copper Smelting Boomtown on the Western Frontier ...
48th Mayor of Missoula; In office January 1, 1990 – September 3, 1996: Preceded by: Robert E. Lovegrove: Succeeded by: Mike Kadas: 42nd Speaker of the Montana House of Representatives; In office 1983–1984: Preceded by: Bob Marks: Succeeded by: John Vincent: Member of the Montana House of Representatives; In office 1974–1984: Personal ...
Other film and TV entertainers from Montana Name Lifetime Montana connection Comments Ref(s) Brad Bird: 1957–present Born in Kalispell: Animator; film director; screenwriter; voice actor; won two Academy Award for Best Animated Feature awards: The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007) [10] [11] Brannon Braga: 1965–present Born in Bozeman