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Although Bannack was the first territorial capital, the territorial legislature moved the capital to Virginia City on February 7, 1865. [11] It remained the capital until April 19, 1875, when it moved to Helena. [12] Thomas Dimsdale began publication of Montana's first newspaper, the Montana Post, in Virginia City on August 27, 1864. [13]
February 7 – Virginia City, Montana becomes the second capital of Montana Territory [38] March 24 – Congress authorizes the Blackfoot Treaty of 1865 (signed in October at Fort Benton, Montana ) by which the Blackfoot tribes ceded all lands south of the Missouri and Teton rivers and west of the Milk river to the Rocky Mountains to the U.S ...
The landmark district encompasses an area of about 20,000 acres (81 km2), including the entire city limits of Virginia City and a significant portion of Alder Gulch where mining operations took place. Many of the city's buildings were built before the turn of the 20th century, and a significant number date to its heyday in the 1860s.
In the first year the area had over 10,000 people living there. Montana Territory was established in May 1864, and the first territorial capital was Bannack. The capital then moved to Virginia City, where it remained until 1875. The Alder Gulch diggings were the richest gold placer deposits ever discovered, and in three years $30,000,000 was ...
The Territory of Idaho includes all of the future State of Montana. 1862: July 28: Gold is discovered along Grasshopper Creek in the Territory of Dakota. Bannack City is established nearby. 1861: April 12: The American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter. March 4: Abraham Lincoln assumes office as the 16th President of the United ...
The owner of a herd of llamas is searching for his animals after they escaped from his property in Utah and began roaming train tracks. 'Like herding cats': Llamas on the loose in Utah were last ...
In the 1870s miners, traders and settlers utilized the road until its decline in the 1880s. The Montana trail started in Salt Lake City and was an important supply point for the early years of the Montana gold rush. In July 1862, gold was discovered in Montana on Grasshopper Creek in Banack City, in southwest Montana. [1]
Montana's Agony; Years of War and Hysteria, 1917-1921 (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979). 174 pp. online; Lemon, Greg. Blue Man in a Red State: Montana's Governor Brian Schweitzer and the New Western Populism (2008) Mills, David W. Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains (2015) Col War era; excerpt