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Genealogy Trails.com  would like to  help you find, preserve and remember your ancestors and record the role they  played in creating this  state of Montana. My name is Jo Ann Boyd Scott and  I grew up in this great state and my heart is still there. I do lookups for southern MT. I know most of the old settlers names. We are looking for county hosts. e-mail me. if you are into transcribing and web page construction, I will be happy to help you. Photos by Joe, a Montana Photographer, thanks Joe.and other family members. This site and photos are under copywrite 2006-2009.

Montana is the nations’s fourth largest state, 148,000 square miles of mountains
You can hike along quiet mountain trails, listening to the sounds of the chattering squirrels and the whisper of the wind in the”quaking aspen” trees and you can get out your fishing pole and go after some of the area’s rainbow, cut throat and brook trout in area streams or fish the reservoirs and lakes for walleye and pike.                                  SUBSCRIBE TO MAILING LISTS

There are 56 counties in MT. (46 counties have 6 people/acre.                    SEARCH ENGINE

There are more cattle and sheep than people                                                 FORM TO SEND DATA TO MONTANA

Montana and Canada share a 545 mile border which is the world’s longest undefended border.

The Montana Flag was officially approved in 1905.    It is adapted from colors once used by the state militia.
The motto "Gold and Silver," or "Oro Y Plata" in Spanish, recalls Spain's one time claim to the area.
The state seal (centered) represents Montana's rugged scenery and pioneer history.
The featured pick, shovel and plow are symbolic of mining and farming. The name Montana was added in 1981.

The Great Seal of the State of Montana is a vivid symbol of all that is special about Big Sky Country
and it evolved from a basic design submitted by Francis McGee Thompson, a representative from Beaverhead County at the First Legislative Assembly at Bannack, the Territorial capital, during the winter of 1864-65.
Thompson's design contained the words "Oro el Plata,", two of the riches that gave rise to the nickname Treasure State. This was changed to read "Oro y Plata," Spanish for gold and silver. Indeed, it is interesting to note that during the first Territorial legislative deliberations on this subject, consideration was given to using the word "Eldorado" instead of "Oro y Plata." This proposal of was voted down.
The seal also features a plow and a miner's pick and shovel above these words to illustrate the state's agricultural and mineral wealth. These are surrounded by the mountains for which Montana was named, as well as by the Great Falls of the Missouri.River, which so dazzled explorers Lewis and Clark.
The Territorial resolution accepting Thompson's design was passed on February 9, 1865, and signed the same day by Territorial Governor Sidney Edgerton. The resolution read: "The Territorial seal shall as a central group represent a plow, a miners pick and shovel, upon the left mountain scenery, underneath as a motto the words Oro el Plata. The seal shall be two inches in diameter and surrounded by these words, The Seal of the The State of Montana.
 

      I met a lot of Cowboys

   And some were real top hands.

    I saw a million cattle,

    And read a lot of brands.

   I've seen some hard old winters,

   When nearly all the cattle die,

    I"ve rode some cutting horses,

That could turn right out of their hides.

I ate my share of beef steak,            

And drank some  too.

I did a lot of hunting,

Which I really liked to do.

I have been bucked off old outlaws.

That I couldn't start to ride.  

I saw some good old buddies,

Go over the Great Divide.

I"m with friends and family now,

I" making my last stand,

And hoping to be on horseback,    

When I reach the Promised Land.

(author unknown)

  STATE SOCIETY

          OFFICERS 1884

                                     
        

         

          


           

            
            
            
            
            

             

              
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Beaverhead
             
             

              
Joseph A. Browne
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Choteau
             
             

              
James M. Arnoux
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Custer
             
             

              
Thomas H. Irvine
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Dawson
             
             

              
John X. Beidler
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Deer Lodge
             
             

              
Conrad Kohrs
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Gallatin
             
             

              
John Potter
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Jefferson
             
             

              
Enoch Wilson
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Lewis and Clarke
             
             

              
Walter W. DeLacy
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Madison
             
             

              
Henry H. Mood
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Missoula
             
             

              
Christopher P. Higgins
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Silver Bow
             
             

              
Caleb E. Irvine
             
            
            

             

             

            
            

             

              
Yellowstone
             
             

              
Perry W. McAdow
             
            
            

             

             

            
           
          
         
        
        

                  Homestead

• David D. Carpenter of Helena, first person in Montana to file for a homestead after the passage of the homestead
  law on August 1, 1868. The homestead file was on a tract on the outskirts of Helena, part of which later became the
  property and grounds of the old Lewis and Clark County Hospital. (David Hilger papers, 1867-1935
  , Small Collection 854)

• Margaret Maceumber, first women to file for a homestead after the passage of the homestead law on
  September 8, 1870. The homestead file was for half of the southeast quarter and the east half of the
  Northeast quarter of section 24, two south, range 5 east. (Kalispell Times, September 19, 1918)

                                                       History of County Creation

                                                         Nine Original Counties (1865)

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