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Robison, Ken (2013). Montana Territory and the Civil War : a frontier forged on the battlefield. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1626191754. Robison, Ken (2014). Confederates in Montana Territory: In the shadow of Price's army. Charleston, SC: The History Press.
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.
Most of what was to become Montana became part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Although first organized into an incorporated territory in 1805 as part of the Louisiana Territory, it was not until large numbers of farmers, miners, and fur trappers began moving into the region in the 1850s that the government of the United States paid much attention to the area.
James Liberty Fisk (ca. 1835 [1] – 1902 [2]) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who promoted settlement of the western United States. He led four expeditions from Minnesota to Montana in the 1860s, [2] before resigning his commission and settling there himself.
The boundary between the Washington Territory and Dakota Territory was the Continental Divide (as shown on the 1861 map); however, the boundary between the Idaho Territory and the Montana Territory followed the Bitterroot Range north of 46°30'N (as shown on the 1864 map). Popular legend says a drunken survey party followed the wrong mountain ...
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This is a timeline of pre-statehood Montana history comprising substantial events in the history of the area that would become the State of Montana prior to November 8, 1889. This area existed as Montana Territory from May 28, 1864, until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Montana.
George Robinson, 62, died in January 2019, days after three Jackson police officers pulled him from a car while searching for a murder suspect. ... Councilman Kenneth Stokes said he thought the ...