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Capital: Helena
Largest city: Billings
Admission to Union: November 8, 1889 (41st)
Highest point: Granite Peak, 12,807 ft
Lowest point: Kootenai River, 1,800 ft
Montana’s name comes from the Spanish word mountain
Montana is known as "Big Sky
Country"
Montana has no sales tax
Most UFO sightings in the USA
Largest USAF base in the USA
Dino 1855
B-Rex blood found
The First Nations
Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
'Made in Montana'
Montana has the largest grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states.
The town of Ekalaka was named for the daughter of the famous Sioux chief, Sitting Bull
Combination, Comet, Keystone, Black Pine, and Pony are names of Montana ghost towns.
The density of the state is six people per square mile
Montana is home to seven Indian reservations
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State of Montana

Montana state seal
About Montana
Montana is a rare and special place. Our Big Sky,
open land, majestic
mountains and friendly people combine to make Montana the “Treasure
State”.
Montana has yielded some of the world's
most significant
dinosaur discoveries. The fifteen stops along the Montana Dinosaur
Trail allow you to discover these paleontological treasures for
yourself.
Yellowstone National Park is the world's first
National
Park, also the largest in the United States. Yellowstone was designated
the world's first national park on March 1, 1872, with the area
remaining largely in the same natural state as it was more than 123
years ago.
Glacier National Park was established in 1910. It
is a
land of mountain ranges carved by prehistoric ice rivers. It features
alpine meadows, deep forests, waterfalls, about 50 glistening glaciers
and 200 sparkling lakes.
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