Distinctly Montana Magazine

D I S T I N C T L Y M O N T A N A M A G A Z I N E • F A L L 2 0 2 1 110 MISSOULA Larch Madness SHELBY Get To Know Toole County GLACIER NATIONAL PARK Larch Madness Women Bootleggers LIBBY Superfund Sites LEWISTOWN Old Broke Rancher HELENA East to Gold Mountain MARYSVILLE Gold! CONFEDERATE GULCH Gold! LIVINGSTON UFC Fighter FORT BENTON Women Bootleggers Get To Know Toole County BUTTE Headframe Pasty Mary MacLane We Died an Easy Death Tommyknockers East to Gold Mountain Mining Today Superfund Sites The Auditor Women Bootleggers SUPERIOR David Mirisch Mining Today ANACONDA Larch Madness Superfund Sites PHILLIPSBURG Ghost Town Sapphires BEAVERHEAD-DEER LODGE NATIONAL FOREST Montana's Mysterious Rock Show BIG TIMBER Cemeteries SPRINGHILL Cemeteries BANNACK Cemeteries Henry Plummer COLUMBUS Mining Today POPULATION 1.05 million ENTERED UNION November 8, 1889 CAPITOL Helena SONG Montana LAND AREA 145,392 Square Miles WATER AREA 1,746 Square Miles SIZE RANKING IN U.S. 4th LENGTH 630 Miles WIDTH 280 Miles HIGHEST POINT 12,799 Feet, Granite Peak LOWEST POINT 1,820 Feet, Kootenai River STATE NICKNAME Treasure State MOTTO "Oro y Plata" (Gold and Silver) ANIMAL Grizzly Bear BIRD Western Meadowlark BUTTERFLY Mourning Cloak FISH Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout FLOWER Bitterroot GRASS Bunch Wheatgrass TREE Ponderosa Pine FOSSIL Maiasaura, or Duck-Billed Dinos GEMSTONE Agate and Sapphire STATE FACTS FLY THE FLAG Under the word "Montana," on a blue field, is the state seal. The seal shows some of Montana's beautiful scenery and tells what people were doing in pioneer times. The pick, shovel, and plow represent mining and farming. In the background a sun rises over mountains, forests and the Great Falls of the Missouri river. A ribbon contains the state motto "Gold and Silver." T R I V I A A B O U T O U R T R E A S U R E S TAT E T R E A S U R E S TAT E

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