In 1867 Fort Benton was the site where Union General Thomas Francis Meagher, then acting governor of Montana Territory, fell overboard from his steamboat and drowned in the river ; his body was never recovered.

In the first round, they survived a tough game against Montana 62 – 57, but despite Dairese Gary's 28 points, fell in the second round to an upstart Washington side.

The two purchased an ancient car ( rumored to be a Model T ), which carried them from New Jersey to Montana, before the wheels literally fell off.

During training in Montana, he met and fell in love with a woman named Anita Blackwell, who was a talented singer.

The story focuses around a Mexican gambler named Cayetano, who was shot in a small town in Montana, a nun who aspires to be a saint and prays for everything or anything, and a writer named Mr. Frazer, who is ill, and constantly listens to the radio.

Bagley ’ s devotion increased during his work at Montana State Normal School in Dillon, Montana.

HBOG expanded during the 1940s and 50's, and in 1960 began shipping Canadian crude to Billings, Montana, refinery through a new link to Glacier pipeline.

Montana became the third player in league history to win both the Super Bowl MVP and the AP Most Valuable Player Award during the same season.

He was also the fourth player, after Bart Starr ( 1966 ), Terry Bradshaw ( 1978 ), and Joe Montana ( 1989 ), to win both the NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP during the same season.

Chronicles the 1917 unsolved murder of Wobbly organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, during a strike by 16, 000 miners against the Anaconda Copper Company.

* Papewes ( Papaway-‘ Lucky Man ’, Chief of the Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), born in the late 1830s near Fort Pitt, was in the 1870s a leader of Mistahimaskwa ´ s Plains River Cree, as the bison disappeared, signed along with Little Pine on the 2nd July 1879 for the 470 members of his tribal group an annex to the Agreement No. 6 at Fort Walsh, in vain he asked for a reserve in the Cypress Hills and the Buffalo Lake, so many members went back to Mistahimaskwa (" Big Bear ") or joined Minahikosis (" Little Pine "), Papewes asked 1884 in vain a reserve adjacent to the reserves of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker '), Minahikosis and Mistahimaskwa, during the rebellion of 1885 were the two groups of Papewes and Minahikosis scattered and some of their members fled in the U. S., 1886 settled the remaining members of the two groups in the Little Pine's reserve died 1901 nahe Fort Assiniboine, Montana )

Montana Creek became a small Dena ' ina village in about 1915 during construction of the Alaska Railroad.

* Pearl " Pete " Ingram Mills ( 1871-December 11, 1933 ), a Montana cowboy who was one of only three men to survive the Shangani Patrol ( along with Burnham ) during the First Matabele War.

The town became one of the most important mining centers in Montana during the height of the gold rush in the 1860s.

Image: Typical. Snowday. Terry. JPG | A view north on Logan Avenue in Downtown Terry, Montana during a typical snowy day.

Forsyth was established in 1876 as the first settlement on the Yellowstone River, and in 1882 residents named the town after General James William Forsyth who commanded Fort Maginnis, Montana during the Indian Wars and the 7th Cavalry at the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Along Montana in the depot district, several small hotels were erected during the second decade of the 20th century.

The Judith River in Montana was named in honor of Julia Hancock by Clark during the Expedition ; he mistakenly thought that was her given name, because he knew her as a child as " Judy ".

The Nineteenth Amendment ( which gave women the right to vote everywhere in the United States ) was not ratified until 1920 ; therefore, during Rankin's term in the 65th Congress ( 1917 – 1919 ), many women throughout the country did not have the right to vote, though they did in her home state of Montana.

Finally, after a devastating five-day battle during freezing weather conditions with no food or blankets, with the major war leaders dead, Joseph formally surrendered to General Nelson Appleton Miles on October 5, 1877 in the Bear Paw Mountains of the Montana Territory, less than 40 miles ( 60 km ) south of Canada in a place close to the present-day Chinook in Blaine County.

He boxed his first 41 bouts in Montana, and had a record of 36 wins, two losses and three draws during that span.

* USS Montana ( ACR-13 ), a cruiser that provided convoy escort duty during World War I

The Marias Massacre ( also known as the Baker Massacre ) was a massacre of Piegan Blackfeet Indians by the United States Army which took place in Montana during the late nineteenth century Indian Wars.

The troupe, the May Valentine Opera Company, performed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado during their 1925 " Summer Season " which began March 26 in Abbeville, Louisiana and ended on September 6 in Sidney, Montana.

Langford was also part of the vigilante movement, the infamous Montana Vigilantes, that dealt with lawlessness in Virginia City and Bannack, Montana during 1863-64.

It is very occasionally seen inland during spring and fall migration ; there are a number of records from the Salton Sea in southern California and scattered sightings from inland US states including Montana, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona.

He was so good that during his senior year, North Carolina State offered Montana a basketball scholarship.

Despite his limited playing time the previous year, Montana performed well during the 1975 spring practice.

Furthermore, Anderson had advanced through the playoffs without throwing a single interception, while Montana had been intercepted 4 times, 3 of them occurring in the NFC title game.

The game was hyped as the battle between two great quarterbacks: Miami's Dan Marino and San Francisco's Joe Montana.

With Marino and Montana, the game became the first Super Bowl in which the starting quarterbacks of each team both threw for over 300 yards.

Instead of the predicted shootout between Dan Marino and Joe Montana, the game was mostly one-sided.

Montana finished the game with 241 passing yards, 4 touchdowns, and no interceptions.

Montana came into this game with a 7-0 record as a starting quarterback at the Superdome due to the 49ers ' dominance of their then-NFC West rival New Orleans Saints.

A sack by Giants ' defensive end Leonard Marshall early in the fourth quarter knocked Montana out of the game.

Belichick also felt that Jim Kelly was not as good at reading defenses as some other elite QBs, like Joe Montana, were, and that Kelly tended to " freeze " what he was seeing from a series and then use that information on the next one, which meant the Giants could be a step ahead of him all game if they alternated their cover plans from drive to drive.

This game is regarded as 49ers quarterback Steve Young's final leap out of the shadow of his predecessor, Joe Montana, who had won four Super Bowls with the 49ers, two with Young as the backup quarterback.

Troy Aikman finished the game with 15 out of 23 completions for 209 yards and a touchdown ( Aikman became just the third quarterback to win three Super Bowls ; Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana each won four ).

* Montana ( solitaire ) or Gaps, a solitaire card game

Joe Montana expressed an early interest in sports, and it was Montana Sr. who first taught him the game of football.

In the game, Montana completed 12 passes in 22 attempts, threw for 223 yards, and scored three passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown.

Devine was so impressed that he later told his wife: " I'm gonna start Joe Montana in the final spring game.

During the game, played in Chapel Hill, Montana came in with 5: 11 left to play.

Montana spent one minute and two seconds of game time on the field.

Against Air Force, Notre Dame's next opponent, Montana again entered the game in the fourth quarter.

Devine inserted Lisch back into the game before Montana finally had the opportunity to play.

Montana entered with approximately 11 minutes remaining and Purdue leading 24-14 ; he threw for 154 yards and one touchdown, and Notre Dame won the game 31-24.

After the game, Devine made Montana the first quarterback on the depth chart and the team won their remaining nine games.

San Francisco won the game 26 – 21, and in recognition of his performance, Montana won the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award, which he accomplished two more times before he retired.

As he had done before, Montana asserted himself late in the game.