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Montana A Comprehensive Portrait of Its Land and Growth
The article details Montana’s size 146000 square miles with 770 water, its name origins and motto Oro y plata. It highlights Butte as a mining hub yielding over 20 million annually and copper output exceeding 200 million pounds yearly, along with abundant minerals, irrigation projects, fertile soil, population growth from 20695 in 1870 to 376053 in 1910, and notable places Helena Great Falls Anaconda Missoula and Glacier park with dramatic features from Missouri River falls to Bad Lands and volcanic lakes. It notes land policy, county seats, and development goals as a young state offering homes and industries amid scenic diversity.
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California
Texas
Montana
J. W. ‘Denver
Stephen A. Douglas
Committee On Territories
Rocky Mountains
Butte City
Missouri River
Helena
Sweet Grass Hills
Federal Reclamation Service
Sun River
Teton River
Great Falls
United States
Potomac River
Commonwealth
Idaho
Butte
Anaconda
Missoula
Bozeman
Billings
Last Chance Gulch
Broadwater
Bannack
Grasshopper Creek
Dillon
Beaverhead County
Virginia City
Glacier Park
Kintia
Agassiz
Boulder
Rainbow
Vulture
Saxton
Crescent
Red Eagle
Cascade County
Black Eagle Falls
Rainbow Falls
Horseshoe Falls
Madison County
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