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unusual facts about Western Montana


Western Montana

Western Montana was originally inhabited by the Salish, Kootenai, Shoshone, Flathead, and Kalispel people.



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Bob Marshall

Bob Marshall Wilderness, a wilderness area in Western Montana, named for the above

C/1861 J1

Granville Stuart noted the observation of this comet in an journal entry on July 1, 1861 while living in western Montana.

Cedar sculpin

The cedar sculpin is a small, large-headed species of cottid that is found in the Coeur d'Alene and St. Joe rivers in northern Idaho, and in a stretch of the Clark Fork river in western Montana.

Missoula International Airport

An additional strip near the Western Montana Fair Grounds on what is now Sentinel High School was sold to the county in 1927 at the request of the Missoula chapter of the National Aeronautic Association and would become Missoula's first true airport.

Polystichum munitum

It occurs along the Pacific coast from southwest Washington to southern California, and also inland east to southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho and western Montana, with isolated populations in interior northern British Columbia, the Black Hills in South Dakota, and on Guadalupe Island off Baja California.