Montana
Details
- Names
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)
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