• the buffalo jump at Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana was used for approximately 2000 years by various Native American tribes?
• some of the thrust horses in Montana's Adel Mountains Volcanic Field fold some of the intrusions, while others are cut by them?
• in 1979 two Montana legislators sued the United States Department of Transportation in an unsuccessful attempt to save the North Coast Hiawatha Amtrak train?
• the stagecoach line running between Kelton, Utah and several gold mines in Idaho and Montana was robbed more often than any other stage line in the Old West?
• the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Missoula, Montana, was named for Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Veuve?
• the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?
• the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 was a wildfire in Montana which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters?
• although the Montana Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, was established in 1895, the first game warden was not hired until 1898?
• French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis, who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics, was born in Montana?
• Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
• Montana's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
• Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a small role as Sheriff Strunk in the 2007 film A Plumm Summer?
• Montana's Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (namesake landform pictured) was designated a federal wilderness study area in 1981, delisted in 1982, and designated again in 1985?
• Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
• Katie Blair became the first teenager from Montana to place in the Miss Teen USA pageant's 24 year history, when she won the Miss Teen USA 2006 crown?
• Hell Gate, a ghost town in western Montana, was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864?
• 'Asta Bowen's novel Wolf: A Journey Home is based on the recorded lives of a pack of wolves relocated from Pleasant Valley, Montana, to Glacier Park in 1989?

Facts on topics related to Montana

Colorado

• Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher?
• Colorado state representative Joe Rice (pictured) resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council?
• Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia?
• Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired?
• Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki-like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation?
• Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
• Colorado Sen. Nancy Spence's bill to create a statewide school voucher program was the first to be enacted into law in the U.S. — and then overturned by state courts — after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris?
• Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?
• Colorado state senator John Morse worked as an emergency medical technician, accountant, and police chief before entering the legislature?
• state representative Dianne Primavera, a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?

North Dakota

• over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
• the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?

Kansas

• Charles de Saulles coached an undefeated football team of workers from a Kansas zinc smelting works that defeated the Carlisle Indians and was dubbed "the oddest football team in the country"?
• Joseph McCoy was a 19th century cattle baron who is often cited as the inspiration for the phrase "The Real McCoy" because he made good on his pledge to Texas ranchers to get them a good price for their Longhorn cattle if they drove them from Texas to Kansas on the Chisholm Trail?
  
• Lake Scott State Park is home to El Quartelejo Ruins, the northernmost Indian pueblo in the United States and the only one known in Kansas?
• during the Indian Wars, troops stationed at Fort Harker, Kansas in 1867 performed more escorts of wagon trains in one year than troops stationed at any other frontier fort in the post-American Civil War era?
• in 1862, Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas proposed the colony of Linconia to fulfill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's vision for African-American emigration to Central America?
• in 1872, Western University in Kansas, USA, selected Charles Henry Langston, abolitionist, politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, as principal of its new normal school?
• the Cimarron Redoubt in southwestern Kansas was built as a fortification and later converted to a post office?
• the directors of Blue Mont Central College had to offer the college's building and land to the state of Kansas three times before the state accepted it and converted it into Kansas State University in 1863?
• the disputed Cherokee Strip in Kansas was the result of a boundary conflict between the Osage, Cherokee and United States federal government which lasted from 1854 until 1866?

Maine

• Maine author C. J. Stevens amazed many of his readers by revealing that gold nuggets can be found by panning certain rivers?
• Edwards Dam in Maine was the first United States hydroelectric dam to be removed against the dam owner's wishes?
• Saco Bay on the Maine coast was named in 1525 by the Spanish cartographer Esteban Gómez for the resemblance of its southern pool to the outline of a sack?
• both the first forensic pathologist and the first female pediatrician in Maine used to live in the Skolfield-Whittier House, now a museum in Brunswick, Maine?
• former Governor Samuel Cony served twice as a member of the Maine House of Representatives—first as a Democrat, and nearly 30 years later as a Republican?
• the pentadic numbers on the Spirit Pond runestones have led to speculation that they contain an authentic record of Thorfinn Karlsefni's expedition to Maine in 1010?
• the three remaining Shakers live at and maintain Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, a National Historic Landmark in Maine?

Nebraska

• Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando and Nick Nolte were all born to German-American families in Omaha, Nebraska?
• Antonine Barada was a 19th century mixed blood fur trader in Nebraska whose mythic strength and heroic actions against slavery prompted his status as a current-day folk hero?
• Charlie Abbey became the first person from Nebraska to play in Major League Baseball after making his debut in 1893?
• Nebraska Highway 14 became a cross-Nebraska highway with the completion of the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River in 1998?
• Reuben Gaylord, the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City, Nebraska Territory, has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska"?
• despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska?
• early in the history of Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska, its entire animal collection was sold at the end of each year?
• in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln, Nebraska?
• in the 1898 case Smyth v. Ames, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared a Nebraska railroad tariff law unconstitutional?
• over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action?