By: Ty Chaddrick, Hunter George, Madison Prinzo, Hannah Zimms, and Astrid Baird

Montana

State number in union: 41

Statehood date

Nov. 8 1889

Capital :Helena

State population

989,415 [2010]

Montana was part

of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

1876 Battle of the little big

thorn , known

as custer’s last stand

in which

cheyenne and sioux defeat

ed custer and

more than

200 of his

men in southe

ast Montan

a.

Butte is the center of the

region

that once supplied half of

U.S copper.

History of Montana

MONTANA

Yellowstone National Park in

southern Montana and

northern Wyoming was the first national park

in the nation.

No state has as many different species of mammals as Montana. Among the

approximately 100 species of mammals in Montana are elk, black

bears, grizzly bears, antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, moose,

caribou, and mountain lions.

At Egg Mountain near Choteau,

dinosaur eggs have been discovered.

Miles City is known as the Cowboy Capitol.

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