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

Montana (/mɒnˈtænə/ (listen)) is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, 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 state capital is Helena, while the largest city is Billings. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges, while the eastern half is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands, with smaller mountain ranges found throughout the state. The state has a reputation for a libertarian bent in popular opinion and policy.

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, 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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The Missouri River is the longest river in the United States. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of the Eastern Centennial Mountains of Southwestern Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 km²), which includes parts of ten U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. Although a tributary of the Mississippi, the Missouri River is much longer and carries a comparable volume of water. When combined with the lower Mississippi River, it forms the world's fourth longest river system.

For over 12,000 years, people have depended on the Missouri River and its tributaries as a source of sustenance and transportation. More than ten major groups of Native Americans populated the watershed, most leading a nomadic lifestyle and dependent on enormous bison herds that roamed through the Great Plains. The first Europeans encountered the river in the late seventeenth century, and the region passed through Spanish and French hands before becoming part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase. (Full article...)

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Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon. Founded in 1862, the town is a National Historic Landmark managed by the state of Montana as Bannack State Park. (Full article...)

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Image 1Montana State Bobcats football at Bobcat Stadium (Montana State University), Bozeman (from Montana)
Image 2Chief Joseph (from History of Montana)
Image 3Montana Rail Link freight haulage in 2005 (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 4Swedish gold panners in 1860s Montana. The Montana gold rush began in 1862. (from History of Montana)
Image 5From Frank Bond, "Louisiana" and the Louisiana Purchase.
Government Printing Office, 1912 Map No. 4. (from History of Montana)
Image 7Early tribal treaty territories in Montana (from History of Montana)
Image 8Clark Fork River, Missoula, in autumn (from Montana)
Image 9Pompeys Pillar National Monument (from Montana)
Image 10Mining headframes in Butte, MT (from History of Montana)
Image 11Map of Montana (from Montana)
Image 12Montana Territory in 1865 (from Montana)
Image 13Belly River in Waterton Lakes National Park (from Montana)
Image 14Missoula, the second-largest city in Montana (from Montana)
Image 15Car license plate design issued in Montana between 2006 and 2009 (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 16Relief map of Montana (from Montana)
Image 17Population of Montana 1870–2018 (from Montana)
Image 18Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Montana)
Image 19Montana population density map (from Montana)
Image 20Quake Lake was created by a landslide during the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake. (from Montana)
Image 21Map of Williston Basin oil fields with reservoirs in Bakken Formation (from History of Montana)
Image 22Joseph M. Dixon, Congressman (1903–1913) and Governor of Montana (1921–1925) (from History of Montana)
Image 23Map of domestic flights available from the largest airport in Montana (Click to enlarge) (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 24First Interstate Center, in downtown Billings, is the tallest building in Montana. (from Montana)
Image 25Montana ranks 2nd nationally in craft breweries per capita. (from Montana)
Image 26General locations of Indian reservations in Montana (from Montana)
Image 27U.S. Route 93 in Montana (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 28Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Deer Lodge, MT, date unknown (from History of Montana)
Image 29Assiniboine family, Montana, 1890–91 (from Montana)
Image 30Temperature and precipitation for Montana's capital city, Helena (from Montana)
Image 31Jeannette Rankin, August 1916 (from History of Montana)
Image 32Click to enlarge detailed map (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 33Pretty Nose at Fort Keogh, 1879 (from History of Montana)
Image 34Stump Horn and family (Northern Cheyenne); showing home and horse-drawn travois. (from History of 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%

80–90%

90%+

Native American

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

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Image 36An Airbus A319 waits at Billings Logan International Airport. (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 37The Palisades area on the north end of the ski area at Red Lodge Mountain Resort (from Montana)
Image 38Mountain Line buses queue to pick up passengers in Missoula. (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 39The Scout in Winter, Crow, 1908 by Edward S. Curtis (from History of Montana)
Image 40The Empire Builder in Essex (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 41Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park (from Montana)
Image 42Missouri Breaks region in central Montana (from Montana)
Image 43Köppen climate types of Montana, using 1991-2020 climate normals. (from Montana)
Image 44Yellowstone Airport, West Yellowstone, Montana (from Montana)
Image 45Buffalo Soldiers, Ft. Keogh, Montana, 1890. The nickname was given to the "Black Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought. (from Montana)
Image 46The Big Sky Resort (from Montana)
Image 47Dancers at Crow Fair in 1941 (from Montana)
Image 48Guided snowmobile tours in Yellowstone Park (from Montana)
Image 49Main Street in Red Lodge, 2000, showing iron facades on buildings (from History of Montana)
Image 50Early Indian treaty territories in Montana (from Montana)
Image 51Lone Mountain at Big Sky Ski Resort (from Montana)
Image 52Chief Joseph and Col. John Gibbon met again on the Big Hole Battlefield site in 1889. (from Montana)
Image 53Mennonite family in Montana, c. 1937 (from Montana)

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... that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM, it still filed to renew the station's license?
... that campaign literature in the 1894 Montana capital referendum accused Helena residents of copious Manhattan consumption?
... that Kane Ioane finished his playing career at Montana State as the Big Sky Conference's all-time tackles leader?
... 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 the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park?
... that Montana television station KOPR-TV brought forward its start date by several months, only to last just one year?

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