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Helena, Montana: Montana Magazine. ISBN 1-891152-09-2. Anderson, Jonathan (1984). Beartooth Country: Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains-Montana Geographic Series #7. Helena, Montana: Montana Magazine. ISBN 0-938314-13-0. Melroy, Mark (1986). Islands on the Prairie-The Mountain Ranges of Eastern Montana-Montana Geographic Series #13. Helena ...
The richest were the 1864 and 1865 placer gold strikes in Confederate Gulch, including Montana Bar, which was one of the most concentrated gold placer strikes ever made. [3] The range takes its name from the fact it is situated in a long belt-like arc. It stretches 75 miles (121 km), making it a mid-length subrange of the Rocky Mountains.
Gates of the Rocky Mountains, Lewis and Clark County, Montana , el. 3,583 feet (1,092 m) [96] Gateway ... List of mountain passes in Montana (M–Z)
The range is named after Jim Bridger, a mountain man of the 19th century who pioneered the Bridger Trail through mountains in southern Wyoming into the Bighorn Basin in 1864. On January 10, 1938, Northwest Airlines Flight 2 crashed in the Bridger Mountains, killing all 10 aboard. This was the first fatal crash of a Northwest Airlines aircraft.
Relief map of Montana. The state's topography is roughly defined by the Continental Divide, which splits much of the state into distinct eastern and western regions. [4] Most of Montana's hundred or more named mountain ranges are in the state's western half, most of which is geologically and geographically part of the northern Rocky Mountains.
The Canadian Rocky Mountain foreland thrust and fold belt is a northeastward tapering deformational belt consisting of Mesoproterozoic, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic strata. The Lewis thrust sheet is one of the major structures of the foreland thrust and fold belt extending over 280 mi (450 km) from Mount Kidd near Calgary, AB in the Southeast Canadian Cordillera to Steamboat Mountain, located west ...
Belgrade is a city in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. The population was 10,460 at the 2020 census. [3] Belgrade is part of the Bozeman, MT Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is the most populous city in Montana that is not a county seat. Belgrade and the surrounding areas experienced a significant population growth from 2010 to 2020.
The Gates of the Mountains Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana.Created by an act of Congress in 1964, the wilderness is managed by Helena National Forest.A day use campground near the Gates of the Mountains, Meriwether Picnic site, is named in honor of Meriwether Lewis.