By: Ty Chaddrick, Hunter George, Madison Prinzo, Hannah Zimms, and Astrid Baird Montana
Dec 17, 2015
State number in union: 41
Statehood date
Nov. 8 1889
Capital :Helena
State population
989,415 [2010]
Montana was part
of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
1876 Battle of the little big
thorn , known
as custer’s last stand
in which
cheyenne and sioux defeat
ed custer and
more than
200 of his
men in southe
ast Montan
a.
Butte is the center of the
region
that once supplied half of
U.S copper.
History of Montana
MONTANA
Yellowstone National Park in
southern Montana and
northern Wyoming was the first national park
in the nation.
No state has as many different species of mammals as Montana. Among the
approximately 100 species of mammals in Montana are elk, black
bears, grizzly bears, antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, moose,
caribou, and mountain lions.
At Egg Mountain near Choteau,
dinosaur eggs have been discovered.
Miles City is known as the Cowboy Capitol.