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1. Bozeman Trail - Historical Marker

Norris, Bozeman Area

In 1840, the Oregon Trail was the primary emigration route across the northern part of the United States.

2. Madison Valley - Historic Marker

McAllister, Bozeman Area

Settlement of the Madison Valley followed on the heels of the Gold Rush to Alder Gulch in the mid 1860s.

3. Raynold’s Pass - Historical Marker

Ennis, Bozeman Area

The low gap in the mountains on the sky line south of here is Raynolds Pass over the Continental Divide.

4. Targhee Pass

West Yellowstone, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

This pass across the Continental Divide takes its name from an early-day Bannack Chief. Free trappers and fur brigades of the Missouri River and Rocky Mountain Fur companies were familiar with the surrounding country...

5. Union Paciﬁc Dining Hall - Historical Marker

West Yellowstone, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

As tourism blossomed during the ﬁrst decades of the twentieth century, the Union Paciﬁc Railroad considered how to better accommodate travelers.

6. Madison Hotel - Historical Marker

West Yellowstone, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

The Forest Service granted Jess Pierman a special-use permit to build a hotel and restaurant here in 1910.

7. The 1959 Earthquake - Historical Marker

West Yellowstone, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

On August 17, 1959, at 11:37 P.M., this spectacularly scenic section of Montana became the focus of worldwide attention and made modern history.

8. The Three Forks of the Missouri - Historical Marker

Three Forks, Bozeman Area

This region was alive with beaver, otter and game before the white man came. It was disputed hunting territory with the Indian tribes.

9. Junction

Custer, Billings Area

The frontier town of Junction was just across the Yellowstone River.

10. Buffalo Country Historical Marker

Glasgow, Northeast Montana

Buffalo meant life to the Plains Indians, and the mountain Indians used to slip down from the hills for their share, too.

11. Red Lodge

Red Lodge, Red Lodge Area

Coal was discovered in the Rock Creek Valley nearly two decades before Red Lodge was established as a mail stop on the Meteetsee Trail in 1884.

12. The Red Lodge Country

Red Lodge, Red Lodge Area

According to tradition, a band of Crow Indians left the main tribe and moved west into the foothills of the Beartooth Range many years ago.

13. Chief Plenty Coups Statue Marker

Red Lodge, Red Lodge Area

Crow country once ranged from Three Forks to the Black Hills, from the Musselshell to the Big Horn Mountains.

14. The Thomas Party

Greycliff, Livingston Area

In 1866, William Thomas, his son Charles, and a driver named Schultz left southern Illinois bound for the Gallatin Valley, Montana.

15. Captain Wm. Clark

Greycliff, Livingston Area

You are now following the historic trail of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. On his return from the Pacific in July 1806, Captain Clark camped for six days about forty miles downstream, near Park City.

16. The Crazy Mountains Historical Marker

Greycliff, Livingston Area

Called Awaxaawippiia by the Apsaalooka (Crow) Indians, the Crazy Mountains, which you can see to the northwest, are an igneous formation forged about 50 million years ago.

17. The Bonanza or Bozeman Trail

Big Timber, Livingston Area

In the early 1860s, there wasn’t a ranch in this country from Bismarck to Bozeman and from the Platte River to Canada. To whites it was land considered “fit only to raise Indians” and while some of them were hoping for a crop failure,

18. The Original Voges Bridge

Big Timber, Livingston Area

In late 1913, Sweet Grass County residents petitioned the County Commissioners to build a bridge across the Yellowstone River west of Big Timber.

19. Emigrant Gulch

Emigrant, Livingston Area

A party of emigrants who had traveled with a wagon train across the Plains via the Bozeman or Bonanza Trail arrived in this gulch August 28, 1864.

20. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

Pray, Livingston Area

The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, which lies to the east, contains the largest single expanse of land above 10,000 feet in elevation in the United States.

21. Cooke City

Cooke City-Silver Gate, Big Sky/Yellowstone Area

In 1868 a party of prospectors came into this country by way of Soda Butte Creek. They found rich float but were set afoot by Indians.

22. Father De Smet

Whitehall, Butte Area

The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed here, westward bound, August 2, 1805. Captain Lewis named the Boulder River “Fields Creek” for one of the party.

23. The Humbug Spires Primitive Area

Butte, Butte Area

Named for its unique granite peaks, this primitive area is part of a geologic system of large-scale volcanic intrusions known as the Boulder Batholith, which extends north beyond Helena and south into Idaho.

24. Butte Historical Marker

Butte, Butte Area

The “greatest mining camp on earth” built on “the richest hill in the world.”

25. Jefferson Valley

Twin Bridges, Butte Area

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, westward bound, came up the Jefferson River in August 1805.

26. Robbers' Roost

Sheridan, Butte Area

In 1863, Pete Daly built a roadhouse on the stage route between Virginia City and Bannack to provide entertainment for, man and beast.

27. Nevada City

Nevada City, Butte Area

A ghost town now, but once one of the hell roarin’ mining camps that lined Alder Gulch in the 1860s.

28. Virginia City

Virginia City, Butte Area

All of Montana has the deepest pride and affection for Virginia City. No more colorful pioneer mining camp ever existed.

29. Adobetown

Virginia City, Butte Area

Placer riches in Alder Gulch spawned many colorful communities. Among them, Adobetown flourished briefly as the center of mining activity in 1864. In that year alone, miners extracted over $350,000 in gold from nearby streams.

30. Elling Bank

Virginia City, Butte Area

Bankers Nowland and Weary set up business in this brick-veneered building, one of the town’s oldest stone structures, in 1864.

31. Metropolitan Meat Market

Virginia City, Butte Area

George Gohn was one of the first to arrive at Alder Gulch in 1863 where he and Conrad Kohrs set up a meat market in a log cabin.

32. Pfouts & Russel (Rank's Drug-Old Masonic Temple)

Virginia City, Butte Area

Paris Pfouts, Vigilante president, and Virginia City’s first mayor was instrumental in laying out the town.

33. Beaverhead Rock

Dillon, Butte Area

On August 10, 1805, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition pushed their way up the Jefferson River’s tributaries toward the Continental Divide and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

34. Browne's Bridge

Apex, Butte Area

Browne’s Bridge was constructed as a toll bridge by Fred Burr and James Minesinger in late 1862 and early 1863.

35. The Montana-Utah Road

Dell, Butte Area

Interstate 15 is the latest in a series of roads that have traversed this area since prehistory. Although used for generations by Native Americans, the first recorded use of this route was by the Lewis and Clark Expedition on August 10, 1805.

36. Old Trail to the Gold Diggins'

Dell, Butte Area

Along in the early 1840s the Americans were like they are now, seething to go somewhere. It got around that Oregon was quite a place. The Iowa people hadn’t located California yet.

37. Sawtell's Ranch

Monida, Butte Area

In 1868, Gilman Sawtell started a dude ranch and Henry’s Lake fishery that did much to develop this natural resort area.

38. The Shambo Stagecoach Station

Monida, Butte Area

The historic Shambo waystation was once located on the opposite side of Shambo Pond. The station served as a livery and overnight stop for the Monida and Yellowstone which acted as a link between the railhead at Monida, Montana, and Yellowstone.

39. The Iron Mountain Mine

Superior, Missoula Area

The Iron Mountain Mine, one of the largest and most successful quartz mines in western Montana, was located about 12 miles north of here.

40. Fort Belknap Reservation Historical Marker

Harlem, Havre Area

Fort Belknap Reservation was established in 1888 when the Gros Ventres, Blackfeet, and River Crows ceded to the government 17,500,000 acres of their joint reservation that had covered all of northern Montana east of the Rocky Mountains.

41. The Vision Quest Historical Marker

Harlem, Havre Area

High points such as mountain tops and tabletop buttes are considered powerful and sacred areas by many Indian peoples.

42. The Battle of Bears Paw Historical Marker

Chinook, Havre Area

This battle was fought September 30 to October 5, 1877, on Snake Creek, about 20 miles south of here near the Bears Paw Mountains, where after a five days’ siege Chief Joseph, one of five remaining Nez Perce leaders

43. Hurry Honyocker Hurry! Historical Marker

Havre, Havre Area

Honyocker, scissorbill, nester … He was the Joad of a quarter-century ago, swarming into hostile land; duped when he started, robbed when he arrived.

44. Wahkpa Chu'gn Meat Market Historical Marker

Havre, Havre Area

Just behind this modern shopping center is a market of an earlier vintage.

45. The Sweet Grass Hills Historical Marker

Chester, Havre Area

You can see the Sweet Grass Hills or the Three Buttes to the north of here on a reasonably clear day.

46. First Methodist Episcopal Church of Chester

Chester, Havre Area

The first two decades of the twentieth century saw railroad promotion and homestead settling along Montana’s Hi-Line. Chester was one of the first communities to spring up along the new Great Northern Railway Line in the 1890s.

47. Our Lady of the Little Rockies Historical Marker

Hays, Havre Area

This shrine was erected in 1931 by Father B. Feusi S.J. and Tom Flack, (a German Immigrant), in honor of the Virgin Mary.

48. The Story of the Miraculous Statue Historical Marker

Hays, Havre Area

In the little Swiss town of Einsiedeln lived an aged and holy wood-carver who had great devotion to the Blessed Mother of God.

49. Claggett Hill Trail Historical Marker

Winifred, Havre Area

In 1866, the U.S. Army established Camp Cooke on the west bank of the Judith River near here to protect local settlers from Indian raids.

50. The Judith Landing Historical Marker

Winifred, Havre Area

This area, which surrounds the confluence of the Missouri and Judith Rivers, was designated a National Historic District in 1974 because of its historic importance to Montana’s transportation system.

51. Fort Chardon Historical Marker

Big Sandy, Havre Area

Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through this area (1805) on their expedition to the Pacific Ocean, and the landscape here remains much as they described it.

52. Liquid Gold Historical Marker

Vandalia, Northeast Montana

Water is the lifeblood of Montana. During the state’s early settlement, the rivers provided transportation and trading routes; later they sustained the livestock and crops of ranchers and homesteaders

53. Old Fort Peck Historical Marker

Fort Peck, Northeast Montana

On the west bank of the Missouri River, about 1 mile from the Dam was located Old Fort Peck

54. In Memoriam Historical Marker

Frazer, Northeast Montana

In the summer of 1837, an American Fur Trading Company steamboat laden with trade goods made its way from St. Louis to Fort Union.

55. The Wolf Point Bridge Historical Marker

Wolf Point, Northeast Montana

The Wolf Point Bridge was the result of many years of lobbying by Roosevelt and McCone county citizens led by Wolf Point businessman William Young.

56. Wolf Point Historical Marker

Wolf Point, Northeast Montana

The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed here, westward bound in 1805. Fur trappers and traders followed a few years later.

57. Fort Peck Indian Reservation Historical Marker

Poplar, Northeast Montana

Fort Peck Indian Reservation is the home of two tribes, whose forefathers were living in this vicinity when Lewis and Clark came up the Missouri.

58. Fort Union Historical Marker

Bainville, Northeast Montana

Fort Union, one of the largest and best-known trading posts of the fur days, was located on the Missouri near the mouth of the Yellowstone, about 14 miles southeast of here.

59. Snowden Bridge Historical Marker

Bainville, Northeast Montana

The only vertical lift bridge in Montana is located 10 miles south of here on the Missouri River.

60. Indian Country Historical Marker

Jordan, Northeast Montana

Until the early 1880s, this portion of Montana was a wild unsettled country where roving parties of Sioux, Crow and Assiniboine Indians hunted buffalo and clashed in tribal warfare.

61. Dinosaurs Historical Marker

Jordan, Northeast Montana

Difficult to believe now, but 80 million years ago the middle of our continent was a shallow sea.

62. Circle Historical Marker

Circle, Northeast Montana

Major Seth Mabry, a Confederate Army officer, came to the Redwater Valley about 1883, driving a herd of longhorns from Texas.

63. Old Fort Gilbert Historical Marker

Sidney, Northeast Montana

“Old Fort Gilbert” was situated directly east of this point on the west bank of the Yellowstone River.

64. Wood Mountain Trail Historical Marker

Scobey, Northeast Montana

This Indian trail extended from the Yellowstone River past this point to the Wood Mountains in Canada.

65. The Judith River Historical Marker

Hobson, Central Montana

When the Lewis and Clark Expedition came up the Missouri River in 1805 Capt. Clark named the Judith River for one of the girls he left behind him.

66. The Judith Basin Country Historical Marker

Lewistown, Central Montana

The first white man to explore this district was Hugh Monroe, called “Rising Wolf” by the Blackfeet Indians.

67. Maiden's Gold Historical Marker

Lewistown, Central Montana

The old mining camp of Maiden, now a ghost town, is located about 10 miles east of here.

68. Lewistown Historical Marker

Lewistown, Central Montana

This area, the final hunting ground for Montana Indians, was the site of battles fought over the buffalo.

69. Fort Maginnis Historical Marker

Lewistown, Central Montana

Fort Maginnis, the last army post created in Montana, was built about 8 miles north of here in 1880.

70. The Smith River Valley Historical Marker

White Sulphur Springs, Central Montana

The mountains to the west are the Big Belts, and those to the east are the Castle Mountains.

71. Lennep Mercantile Historical Marker

Lennep, Central Montana

Built in 1914 by M. T. Grande, this building housed a grocery store with a small supply of dry goods.

72. E57B The Last Electric Locomotive Historical Marker

Harlowton, Central Montana

The Milwaukee Road’s 656-mile electrified railroad ended at 11:40 P.M. June 15, 1974, when Engineer Art Morang stopped the E57B & E34C on the Harlowton Roundhouse Track. They were the last operating locomotives of the original 84 locomotives.

73. The Crazy Mountains Historical Marker

Harlowton, Central Montana

The Crazy Mountains, which you can see to the southwest, are an outlying range. They are far more rugged and beautiful than they appear at a distance.

74. Cow Country Historical Marker

Roundup, Central Montana

In the 1880s, days of the open range, many a roundup outfit worked this country.

75. Ingomar Public School Historical Marker

Ingomar, Central Montana

As hundreds of farmers and ranchers homesteaded the arid, treeless plains of northwestern Rosebud County, the townsite of Ingomar was platted along the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in 1912.

76. J.A. Bookman General Store Historical Marker

Ingomar, Central Montana

J. Abraham “Abe” Bookman came from Ireland with his wife, Anna, and brother-in-law, Simon Sigman.

77. Greening Bank Historical Marker

Ingomar, Central Montana

Completion of the ‘’Milwaukee Road” brought hundreds of homesteaders to Ingomar during the 1910s. By 1914, wood-frame homes and a small commercial district proclaimed the town a permanent settlement.

78. Ingomar Historical Marker

Ingomar, Central Montana

Upon completion of the Milwaukee Railroad in 1910, Ingomar became a hub of commerce in the area bounded by the Missouri, Musselshell and Yellowstone Rivers.

79. Mining Country Historical Marker

Helena, Helena Area

This is about the center of a rich mining district extending from Butte to Helena. The mountains are spurs of the Continental Divide.

80. The Boulder River Bridge Historical Marker

Boulder, Helena Area

The trusses on this structure were salvaged from the “Hubbard” or “Red” Bridge.

81. The Prickly Pear Diggings Historical Marker

Jefferson City, Helena Area

The Fisk or Northern Overland Expedition camped on the future site of Montana City just east of the highway in September 1862.

82. Freighters Historical Marker

Jefferson City, Helena Area

Time was when ox and mule teams used to freight along this route. A five-ton truck doesn’t look as picturesque but there hasn’t been much change in the language of the drivers.

83. Continental Divide Elevation 6325 Historical Marker

Helena, Helena Area

MacDonald Pass joins two other Continental Divide crossings as vital links between east and west in Montana.

84. The Mullan Road Historical Marker

Helena, Helena Area

From this point west to the Idaho line I-90 follows the route of a military road located and constructed during 1858-62 by Captain John Mullan, 2nd Artillery, U.S. Army.

85. The Montana Central Railroad Historical Marker

Craig, Helena Area

The Montana Central Railroad used to run on the tracks that follow Little Prickly Pear Creek and the highway.

86. The Mann Gulch Fire Historic Marker

Wolf Creek, Helena Area

At an isolated gulch about three miles northeast of here on August 5, 1949, twelve smokejumpers and a Forest Service employee died when a routine fire unexpectedly turned deadly.

87. Last Chance Gulch Historic Site

Helena, Helena Area

The city of Helena started as a group of placer miners’ cabins and Main Street follows the bottom of Last Chance Gulch.

88. Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills Historic Marker

Montana City, Helena Area

The mountains to the west are the Elkhorns. Those to the east across the Canyon Ferry Lake are the Big Belts. Both of these ranges are highly mineralized.

89. Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode Historic Marker

Anaconda, Butte Area

Location: West of Anaconda This mining property was located June 15, 1867, the name commemorating the laying of the second transatlantic cable.

90. Anaconda Historical Marker

Anaconda, Butte Area

Location: East edge of Anaconda Selected by Marcus Daly as a smelter site in 1883 because of an abundant supply of good water, Anaconda was the home of the Washoe Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company until 1980.

91. The Valley of a Thousand Haystacks Historical Marker

Garrison, Southwest Montana

Location: Garrison The Little Blackfoot Valley is filled with lush hay fields. You already may have noticed the rounded haystacks and commented on the strange lodgepole structures standing in many of the fields.

92. First Discovery of Gold in Montana Historical Marker

Gold Creek, Southwest Montana

Location: East of Gold Creek Opposite this point, a creek flows into the Clark Fork River from the west. In 1852, a French halfbreed, Francois Finlay, commonly known as “Benetsee,” prospected the creek for placer gold.

93. Bear Mouth Historical Marker

Drummond, Southwest Montana

Location: West of Drummond Bear Mouth, across the river to the south, was a trading point for the placer camps at Beartown, Garnet, and Coloma located in the hills north of here.

94. Traveler's Rest Historic Marker

Lolo, Southwest Montana

Location: South of Lolo The Lewis and Clark Expedition, westward bound, camped at the mouth of Lolo Creek September 9th, 10th, 1805.

95. The Changing Landscape Historical Marker

Lolo, Southwest Montana

Historical Marker Located Highway 12 west of Lolo The Lewis and Clark and the Nez Perce National Historic trails collectively referred to as the Lolo Trail, follow the ridges north of U.S. Highway 12.

96. Nez Perce Sikum Historical Marker

Lolo, Southwest Montana

Location: Highway 12 West of Lolo Sikum is the Nez Perce word for horse. The Nez Perce people were introduced to the horse in the 1730s. The word “appaloosa” was created by white settlers.

97. Rocky Mountain Laboratory Historical Marker

Hamilton, Southwest Montana

In earlier days, Rocky Mountain spotted fever was a dreaded malady in the West. The first case of spotted fever was recorded in the Bitterroot Valley in 1873. Neither cause nor cure was known and mortality was high.

98. Medicine Tree Historical Marker

Darby, Southwest Montana

This Ponderosa Pine has been standing guard here on the bend of the river for nearly 400 years.

99. Lewis and Clark Expedition

Butte, Butte Area

On August 1, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped at a point 200 yards west from this spot, on the south bank of the river facing the mouth of the creek which flows into the river from the north.

100. Washoe Theater Historical Marker

Anaconda, Butte Area

Seattle-based theater architect B. Marcus Pinteca (890- 1971) drew the plans for this remarkable structure in 1930. However, the Depression delayed interior finishing and the $200,000 movie theater did not open until 1936.

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