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Montana

MT

Place Type
state
Description
Inhabited by Blackfoot, Sioux, Shoshone, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Flathead & others when French arrived 18th cen.; part came to USA in Louisiana Purchase 1803, conflict with Britain over N border settled in 1846; great influx of settlers came after Civil War.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Frances Senska (American, 1914-2009)

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Interior Salish and American, born 1940)

Active

Anne Appleby (American, born 1954)

Charles Marion Russell (American, 1864-1926)

Willem Volkersz (American, born Netherlands, born 1939)

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