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East face of the Crazy Mountains in the northern Rocky Mountains of Montana (2015)

Montana (/mɒnˈtænə/ ^ⓘ mon-TAN-ə) 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. It is the fourth-largest state by area, the eighth-least populous state, and the third-least densely populated state. Its capital is Helena, while the most populous city is Billings. The western half of the state contains numerous mountain ranges, while the eastern half is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands, with smaller mountain ranges found throughout the state.

Most of Montana first came under American sovereignty with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and was explored by the Lewis and Clark Expedition shortly thereafter. Fur trappers followed and were the main economic activity in the area until gold was discovered in 1852. The ensuing gold rush, along with the passage of the Homestead Acts in 1862, brought large numbers of American settlers to Montana. Rapid population growth and development culminated in statehood on November 8, 1889. Mining, particularly around Butte and Helena, would remain the state's main economic engine through the mid-20th century.

Montana has no official nickname but several unofficial ones, most notably "Big Sky Country", "The Treasure State", "Land of the Shining Mountains", and "The Last Best Place". Its economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, mining, and lumber. The health care, service, defense, and government sectors are also significant to the state's economy. Montana's fastest-growing sector is tourism, with 12.6 million tourists (as of 2019) visiting the state each year. (Full article...)

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From his birth in 1911 until 1950, L. Ron Hubbard was a failed student, a struggling writer, a low-ranking and oft-disciplined officer in the US Navy, and an occult practitioner. His early family life included following his father, a US Navy officer, to different bases around the world, and attending university for two years. In 1933 L. Ron Hubbard married his first wife Margaret "Polly" Grubb and they had two children. The couple struggled with finances as Hubbard wrote pulp fiction. Hubbard had a short but disastrous stint in the US Navy, then immersed himself into occult practices, abandoning his first wife and marrying a second wife, Sara Northrup.

By the end of 1949, Hubbard was making his first comments about what would become Dianetics. (Full article...)

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The Montana State Fairgrounds Racetrack, also known as the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds Racetrack and as Helena Downs, is a historic horse racing track located on the outskirts of Helena, Montana, in the United States. Constructed in 1870, the track was part of the Montana State Fairgrounds, now the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds. The racetrack was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 2006. Portions of the track were demolished from 2006 to 2008 due to new construction on the fairgrounds. (Full article...)

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Image 1Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park (from Montana)
Image 2Population of Montana 1870–2018 (from Montana)
Image 3Yellowstone Airport, West Yellowstone, Montana (from Montana)
Image 4Missouri Breaks region in central Montana (from Montana)
Image 5Jeannette Rankin, August 1916 (from History of Montana)
Image 6An Airbus A319 waits at Billings Logan International Airport. (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 7U.S. Route 93 in Montana (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 8Montana population density map (from Montana)
Image 9The Palisades area on the north end of the ski area at Red Lodge Mountain Resort (from Montana)
Image 10Montana Territory in 1865 (from Montana)
Image 11Mennonite family in Montana, c. 1937 (from Montana)
Image 12Early tribal treaty territories in Montana (from History of Montana)
Image 13Guided snowmobile tours in Yellowstone Park (from Montana)
Image 14Main Street in Red Lodge, 2000, showing iron facades on buildings (from History of Montana)
Image 15100 pound native Montana wolf taken in 1928 (from Montana)
Image 16Ethnic origins in Montana (from Montana)
Image 17Pompeys Pillar National Monument (from Montana)
Image 18Missoula, the second-largest city in Montana (from Montana)
Image 19Map of Montana (from Montana)
Image 20Mining headframes in Butte, MT (from History of Montana)
Image 21Map of domestic flights available from the largest airport in Montana (Click to enlarge) (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 22Quake Lake was created by a landslide during the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake. (from Montana)
Image 23Early Indian treaty territories in Montana (from Montana)
Image 24Map of Williston Basin oil fields with reservoirs in Bakken Formation (from History of Montana)
Image 25Lone Mountain at Big Sky Ski Resort (from Montana)
Image 26Stump Horn and family (Northern Cheyenne); showing home and horse-drawn travois. (from History of Montana)
Image 27Buffalo Soldiers, Ft. Keogh, Montana, 1890. The nickname was given to the "Black Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought. (from Montana)
Image 28Köppen climate types of Montana, using 1991-2020 climate normals (from Montana)
Image 29The Scout in Winter, Crow, 1908 by Edward S. Curtis (from History of Montana)
Image 30First Interstate Center, in downtown Billings, is the tallest building in Montana. (from Montana)
Image 31Chief Joseph (from History of Montana)
Image 32General locations of Indian reservations in Montana (from Montana)
Image 33Montana ranks 2nd nationally in craft breweries per capita. (from Montana)
Image 34Swedish gold panners in 1860s Montana. The Montana gold rush began in 1862. (from History of Montana)
Image 35Temperature and precipitation for Montana's capital city, Helena (from Montana)
Image 36The Big Sky Resort (from Montana)

Map of counties in Montana by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

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Native American

50–60%

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Image 38Montana Rail Link freight haulage in 2005 (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 39Joseph M. Dixon, Congressman (1903–1913) and Governor of Montana (1921–1925) (from History of Montana)
Image 40From Frank Bond, "Louisiana" and the Louisiana Purchase.
Government Printing Office, 1912 Map No. 4. (from History of Montana)
Image 41Relief map of Montana (from Montana)
Image 42Chief Joseph and Col. John Gibbon met again on the Big Hole Battlefield site in 1889. (from Montana)
Image 43Click to enlarge detailed map (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 44Pretty Nose at Fort Keogh, 1879 (from History of Montana)
Image 45Dancers at Crow Fair in 1941 (from Montana)
Image 46Clark Fork River, Missoula, in autumn (from Montana)
Image 47The Empire Builder in Essex (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 48Montana State Bobcats football at Bobcat Stadium (Montana State University), Bozeman (from Montana)
Image 49Assiniboine family, Montana, 1890–91 (from Montana)
Image 50Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Deer Lodge, MT, date unknown (from History of Montana)
Image 51Mountain Line buses queue to pick up passengers in Missoula. (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 52Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election. Areas are in proportion to the number of votes cast in each county. (from Montana)

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... that Absaroka was a proposed U.S. state that would have included parts of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana?
... that campaign literature in the 1894 Montana capital referendum accused Helena residents of copious Manhattan consumption?
... that the owner of a Montana TV station changed the name of his company because he was asked why his license plate read "SUNBELT"?
... that a "North Dakota joke of the mornin'" was a feature on Montana radio station KGRZ because the station's owner and morning show host hailed from that state?
... that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park?
... that 16 Montana youths are plaintiffs in the lawsuit Held v. Montana, the first constitutional climate change lawsuit to go to trial in the United States?

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