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MARVELOUS MONTANA: FIFTEEN FUN FACTS

9/25/2015

 
Montana.

Seven letters, infinite wonder.  

More cows than people, ghost towns galore, stomping grounds of the dinosaur and the American Indian; the west as wild and beautiful and lonesome as it is epic.

Home to the first International Peace Park and the first woman elected to Congress.  A pacifist, Jeanette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  No news Jeanette never married, despite several offers.   A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.

This girls got a few more Montana facts to share with you following my uncommon journey to the 41st state.  Let’s just say I enjoyed a bit of literary license in the sharing. 
 
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46 of Montana’s 56 counties are considered “frontier counties” with fewer than 6.8 people per square mile; about the same ratio of Illinois politicians who end up serving time.  

Montana was the last state to establish an age limit for buying cigarettes, about the same time the Marlboro Man succumbed to respiratory failure.

Tweets originating from inside the state of Montana are longer than those from any other state−averaging just more than 43 out of 140 possible characters in length.  Just another way Montanans live up to their BIG SKY country reputation. 

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By law, it is a felony in Montana for a wife to open her husband’s mail; nothing on the books about reading his texts, though.

The state tree of Montana is the Ponderosa Pine.  I may be barking up the wrong tree, but last I checked, Nevada was home to the Ponderosa and the Cartwrights.   

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Montana was a bit slow in joining the 40 states already part of America on November 8th, 1889.  You could say Montana was basically out in left field.

This comes straight from the horse’s mouth.  It’s perfectly legal in Montana for you to ride your horse home if you’re drunk.   Mr. Ed said so.   

There are quite a few stars who call Montana their home (at least part of the year), among them Michael Keaton (Big Timber), David Letterman (Choteau), Dennis Quaid (Livingston), John Mayer (Bozeman), Tom Brokaw (Livingston), Ted Turner (Gallatin Gateway), and the Big Dipper (Big Sky Country, showing nightly).  

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Moo-ve over, Texas!  The last I herd, Montana has almost three times as many cows as it has people.  Watch where you step.

Talk about triple plays!  Montana is home to the Triple Divide, the hydrological apex of North America on Triple Divide Peak.  From Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park, water flows to three oceans: the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the Pacific.  GET OUT!   

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Montana is believed to have the largest grizzly bear population in the US, second only to the massive numbers of sex-crazed Love Bugs making whoopee on Floridian's windshields.  Better sex-crazed bugs than sex-crazed bears. 

Combination, Comet, Keystone, Black Pine, and Pony are Montana ghost towns. My guess, no way Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid high tailed it to South America.

Eleven tribal nations live on seven Indian reservations in Montana.  All know the importance of calling ahead when it comes to making dinner plans.  

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Montana’s Virginia City was founded in 1863 and is considered to be the most complete original town of its kind in the United States, except for maybe Mayberry and Gotham City.  

The highest point in Montana is Granite Peak, which stands 12,799 feet above sea level, give or take a few hundred feet of snow.  


Joan
9/25/2015 01:31:40 pm

Nice, a bunch of facts I didn't know., and probably won't remember.

Sherry
9/25/2015 04:57:31 pm

I tried to make them more memorable with a little humor. A losing battle at our age, huh?!

Joan
9/26/2015 05:43:11 pm

Age brings the losing battle to many things.


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