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 The
moose, now numbering over 8,000 in
Montana,
was thought to be extinct in the Rockies south of Canada in the 1900s.
At Egg Mountain near Choteau, dinosaur
eggs have been discovered supporting the theory some dinosaurs were
more like mammals and birds than like reptiles.
In Whitehall,
Montana
it is illegal to operate a vehicle with ice picks attached to the
wheels.
In 1884,
the citizens of
Montana
Territory were fed up with lawlessness and forming a large-scale
vigilante force, they executed thirty-five horse and cattle thieves
that year.
The Continental
Divide runs along the crests of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to
Mexico, literally dividing the waters of the North American Continent.
Montana
is known as the headwaters state because much of the water which flows
to the rest of the nation comes from the mountains of
Montana.
No state has as many
different species of mammals as
Montana.
In Deer Lodge,
Montana, in the
Old
West days, a cowboy evangelist angered over a snoring parishioner
once fired a bullet over the head of the dozing man.
The
Battle of
the Little Bighorn also known as
Custer's Last Stand took place on June 25, 1876.
Lieutenant Colonel Custer's forces—including more than 200 of his
men were wiped out in less than 20 minutes.
It is a felony for a wife to open her
husband's mail.
In Fort Benton,
Montana a
cowboy once insisted on riding his horse to his room in the Grand Union
Hotel. When the manager objected, they exchanged gunfire. The
horseman was killed before reaching the top of the stairs; fourteen .44
slugs were later dug out of his body.
Flathead Lake in
northwest
Montana contains over 200 square miles of water and 185 miles of
shoreline. It is considered the largest natural freshwater lake in the
west.
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