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Capital City: Helena Population: 902,195 people (44th in the nation) Nickname: Treasure State Montana State Motto: "Oro y Plata" (Spanish for 'Gold and Silver')
Largest Cities: Billings, Butte, Bozeman, Helena, Missoula, Great Falls, Kalispell, Havre, Anaconda and Miles City Motto: Oro y plata (Spanish for "Gold and Silver") Agriculture: Cattle, wheat, barley, sugar beets, hay, hogs. Industry: Mining, food processing, lumber and wood products, tourism. Total Area: 147046 square miles Water Mass: Fourth in water 1492 square miles Land Mass: Fourth in land mass 145557 square miles, after Alaska, Texas and California Highest Point: Granite Peak; 12,799 feet (10th highest in the nation) Lowest Point: Kootenai River; 1800 feet Geographic Center: Fergus, 11 miles west of Lewistown Topography: Mountains in the western one-third of the state; eastern two-thirds gently rolling northern great plains. Borders: American states of Idaho, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming as well as Canadian Provinces British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan
In 1888, Helena (the current state capital) had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world.
In 1902, a group of female students from the Fort Shaw Indian Industrial School began playing basketball and traveled throughout Montana, defeating high school teams and some college teams. In 1904, the girls' basketball team traveled by train to the St. Louis World's Fair. Over a period of five months, the team was challenged by numerous other basketball teams and won every contest, returning to Fort Shaw with the "world champion" trophy. On May 1, 2004, a monument in honor of the basketball team was unveiled at the entrance of the present-day Fort Shaw Elementary School.
In the movie 'Star Trek: First Contact', Montana is the location of the fictitious first contact between humans and an alien race, the Vulcans. Star Trek producer Brannon Braga is originally from Bozeman, Montana.
The state's name is derived from the Spanish word meaning "mountain". The state nickname is the "Treasure State". Other nicknames include "Land of Shining Mountains," "Big Sky Country", and the slogan "the last best place."
The planned battleships USS Montana were named in honor of the state. However, neither battleship was completed, making Montana the only state of the 48 states during World War II not to have a battleship named after it. Additionally, Alaska and Hawaii have both had nuclear submarines named after them. As such Montana is the only state in the union with out a modern naval ship named in honor of it.
The Hell Creek Formation is a major source of dinosaur fossils. Paleontologist Jack Horner, of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, brought this formation to the world's attention with several major finds. For example, Jane was discovered in 2001 in Hell Creek and is the world's most complete juvenile tyrannosaurus rex.
Montana has the largest grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states.
Montana's triple divide allows water to flow into three oceans: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico), and the Arctic Ocean (Hudson Bay). This phenomenon occurs at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park.
Montana is one of two states in the continental United States which, in addition to not having a major metropolitan area over 1,000,000 in population, also does not border a state that does have one (Maine is the other). However, it does border the Canadian Provinces Alberta (population in 2005 of 3,237,000) and British Columbia (population in 2006 of 4,292,000, which have a combined three cities with a metro population of over 1,000,000 each.
Montana remained a territory for twenty-five years. It was not until the federal government passed the Enabling Act of 1889 and the voters of Montana Territory ratified a new constitution that Montana was admitted into the Union as the 41st state on November 8, 1889, by presidential proclamation of President Benjamin Harrison.
