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Ken Egan
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Montana 1889
Indians, Cowboys, and Miners in the Year of Statehood
By Ken Egan
When Montana became the 41st state in 1889, an old pinoeer lamented, “Now she's gone to hell,” but most Montanans embraced statehood as the inevitable culmination of one of the most rapid and dramatic transformations in United States history.Only twenty-five years after becoming a territory, Mont...
Montana 1864
Indians, Emigrants, and Gold in the Territorial Year
By Ken Egan
In 1864, vast herds of buffalo roamed the northern short-grass prairie and numerous Native American nations lived on both sides of the adjacent Continental Divide. Lewis and Clark had come and gone, and so had most of the fur trappers and mountain men. The land that would become Montana was mostl...