Ovando

Ovando, is located northeast of Missoula and serves as a supply point for logging camps, hay, and sheep ranches. The post office opened in 1883 and the town was named after the first postmaster, Ovando Hoyt.

Mer. Lewis
July 6, 1806
“these plains I called the prairie of the knobs from the number of knobs being irregularly scattered through it. . .on the border of which we passed the remains of 32 old lodges”
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