Wikipedia:WikiProject Montana

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1. Geologyguy 02:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC) - Geology, Butte History, National Historic Landmarks, Mining, Natural areas, mountains - No edits since May 2008[reply]
2. ElCharismo 16:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC) - Focus: General Montana History, Small Town Culture, Local Geography, and Incorporation of Photography and Other Media - No edits since May 2010[reply]
3. Drumguy8800 (talk · contribs · count) Love Montana.. I've been working on articles within the scope of the Bitterroot Range recently.. but I'm a pretty experienced editor and am willing to help wherever. - 1 edit since September 2009
4. Greyduk 21:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC) Eastern Montana - No edits since February 2008[reply]
5. MontanaHatchet 01:17, 10 October 2007 (UTC)-Former Montana resident, wanted to be a part of my state's Wikiproject. - No edits since June 2008[reply]
6. John Carter 16:27, 12 October 2007 (UTC) - work on the portal. - No edits since January 2008[reply]
7. Jade Robbins (talk) 23:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC) - Montana resident, will help whenever possible. - No edits since November 2007[reply]
8. P.primo (talk) 23:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC) - Focus: Colstrip, Montana, grew up in Colstrip - 3 edits since November 2009, none since July 2010[reply]
9. snachodog (talk) 14:09, 16 September 2008 (UTC) I love Montana. Going to school in Missoula, involved in local politics. I am a Wikipedia novice, but I will help with whatever I can. - 1 Edit since March 2010[reply]
10. tanankyo (talk) 18:14, 09 October 2008 (UTC)-Former Deer Lodge resident, interested in helping when and where I can. - 1 edit since November 2009[reply]
11. Narissara (talk) 8:19, 5 June 2010 (UTC) First generation Montanan from Stevensville/Missoula. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia editing, but I'd like to help. - No edits since June 2010
12. Jim (talk) 12:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC) Third generation Montanan from the southwestern region of the state. Relatively new, but willing to help out with research and editing. - No edits since September 2010[reply]
13. Ltvine 01:15, 2 March 2007 (UTC) - northeast Montana native - Foci: Transportation, Architecture, others still developing. - No edits since April 2017[reply]
14. Seattlehawk94 ((User talk:Seattlehawk94|talk)) 03:04, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Family is all from Butte, spent a lot of my life there and it's home. Mostly Western/SW Montana, Livingston/South Central Montana, Billings are topics I know about. - No edits since August 2019[reply]
15. Missoulian (talk) 18:16, 29 December 2010 (UTC)... I live in Missoula, Montana and love everything about Missoula, and Montana. Long-time user for Wikipedia, and would love to help in any way I could. - No edits since February 2017[reply]
16. Dsetay ((talk) Third generation Montanan and frequent Wikipedia contributor. Currently live in Seattle but focused on Montana articles related to Missoula, higher education, and history. - No edits since February 2015
17. Bobert902101 - I have a new found love for the state and people of Montana. I can check links, perform any tasks that are on a todo list, anything else let me know.Bobert902101 (talk) 22:06, 13 November 2011 (UTC) - No edits since November 2011[reply]
18. JohnDavidStutts - Long-time western Montana resident, have good information/photos on western Montana mountains and wildlands. JohnDavidStutts (talk) 20:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)JohnDavidStutts - No edits since February 2015[reply]
19. STO12 - Loves Montana; can't think of where else to be :) - No edits since September 2015
20. TurfToe11 (talk) 06:44, 1 July 2013 (UTC) I live in part-time and know a lot about the town of West Yellowstone, MT - No edits since June 2015[reply]
21. Djembayz - Editathon in Missoula; Adding "On this day ..." in the Montana portal. Djembayz (talk) 13:35, 21 November 2013 (UTC) - No edits since November 2015[reply]
22. KingJeff1970 (talk) 23:10, 8 July 2014 (UTC) I live in Helena and work in the Montana Historical Society Research Center, so I can check sources in Montana history fairly easily. My interests are mostly in Montana history, political, social, and environmental, so I hope to improve existing articles in these areas and maybe create some new ones - No edits since July 2018[reply]
23. Shadybradyj (talk)12:28, 01 January 2015 (UTC) My family homesteaded in Northeast Montana in the early 1900s. I am interested in the history of Montana, especially Northeast Montana. - No edits since August 2016[reply]

• 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
• Gary Cooper
• Cutthroat trout
• Glacier National Park (U.S.)
• Ted Kaczynski
• Bob Marshall (wilderness activist)
• Montana-class battleship
• Pallid sturgeon
• William F. Raynolds
• Louis Riel
• SS Montanan
• Michelle Williams (actress)
• Yogo sapphire

• List of municipalities in Montana

• ... that sculptor Jim Dolan portrayed Albert Einstein throwing a Frisbee?
• ... that Merrill G. Burlingame, a former professor of history at Montana State University, was known as "Mr. Montana History"?
• ... that Montana television hall of fame inductee Norma Ashby was kissed by Robert Goulet during an interview, and once featured a rancher on her local KRTV show who gutted a rattlesnake on live television?
• ... that the Helena Historic District (Atlas building pictured) required a major boundary adjustment when urban renewal in the 1970s destroyed over 60 historically significant buildings?
• ... that a study of lichens was used in the nomination process for the Alice Creek Historic District?
• ... that MacDonald Pass was part of a Montana toll road known once as "the Frenchwoman's road" because it was operated by the wife of French Canadian Constant Guyot?
• ... that "Miky", a bomb-sniffing police dog that only responds to commands in Hebrew, helped to revitalize the Jewish community in Helena, Montana, that built Temple Emanu-El?
• ... that the most heavily damaged building in the 1935 Helena earthquake was the Helena High School, which had been completed just two months earlier?
• ... that a female state legislator proposed making Dorothy's Rooms (bathroom pictured), the last brothel in Helena, Montana, a historical landmark?
• ... that there is a cemetery with over 350 graves at an unknown location on the grounds of the Lewis and Clark County Hospital Historic District (pictured)?
• ... that Black Sandy State Park on Hauser Lake (pictured) was originally a recreation area operated by the Montana Power Company?
• ... that a flashing blue light, used to alert local skiers that fresh powder snow is falling at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area, sits atop the Hotel Baxter (pictured) in Bozeman, Montana?
• ... that Bozeman, Montana, is home to two breweries – the Bozeman Brewery Historic District and Spieth and Krug Brewery – now listed in the National Register of Historic Places?
• ... that Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp was used as a training camp for conscientious objector smokejumpers during World War II?
• ... that Eagle's Store, structurally similar to the Old Faithful Inn, has been operated by the same family since its founding in 1908?
• ... that the Bozeman National Fish Hatchery was instrumental in rebuilding the endangered population of the greenback cutthroat trout?
• ... that the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake caused Hebgen Lake, near Yellowstone National Park, to recede 22 feet (6.7 m), leaving a wide gravel beach along the lakefront of Lonesomehurst Cabin (pictured)?
• ... that Christmas Gift Evans House was not a Christmas gift?
• ... that the Helena train wreck of 1989 occurred during a record cold snap that ranked No. 4 on the NOAA's list of Montana's Top Weather/Water/Climate events of the 20th century?
• ... that the Bozeman Carnegie Library was intentionally built across from Bozeman, Montana's red-light district and opium dens?
• ... that the Dearborn River High Bridge (pictured), near Augusta, Montana, is the last standing pin-connected Pratt half-deck truss bridge left in the United States?
• ... that several Freemasons are buried on the oldest Jewish cemetery in Montana, Home of Peace in Helena?
• ... that the log and half-timber construction Kluge House in Helena, Montana, a rare and historic example of Silesian fachwerk, was almost demolished in 1964?
• ... that the night after the Lewis and Clark Expedition broke camp at Camp Disappointment was the only time during the entire expedition that they killed any Indians?
• ... that Traveler's Rest near Lolo, Montana, is the only place along the Lewis and Clark Trail where physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been found?
• ... that Yogo sapphires (pictured) are rarer than diamonds and are found only in Yogo Gulch, Montana? (22,100 hits, 2nd most of Nov 2011, see DYK stats pages)
• ... that Montana State University educator and artist Frances Senska trained several internationally known ceramic artists although she herself had just two academic quarters of training in ceramics?
• ... that sales of Montana artist Monte Dolack's poster, "Restoring the Wolf to Yellowstone," were banned in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks by the U.S. National Park Service in 1990?
• ... that in 1966, the C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Montana wanted to tear down its namesake's home (pictured) even as it was about to receive National Historic Landmark status?
• ... that, because of their unique genetic makeup, the feral horses (mare and foal pictured) on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range "may be the most significant wild-horse herd remaining in the U.S."?
• ... that the bison bone bed at First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana is 13 feet (4.0 m) deep?
• ... that when the 5,800-seat Four Seasons Arena was built at Montana ExpoPark in 1979, it lacked air conditioning?
• ... that US Air Force Major General Nels Running, a recipient of seven Distinguished Flying Crosses, had never boarded an airplane until he left his home town to attend the Air Force Academy?
• ... that Nelson Story was the first cattleman to drive Texas Longhorns to Montana along the Bozeman Trail in 1866?
• ... that as of March 2011, Benefis Health System was the largest hospital in the U.S. state of Montana?
• ... that when Great Falls High School in Montana was built in 1896, a herd of sheep was used to compact earth around the foundation?
• ... that in 1889, the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company agreed to build a smelter in Great Falls, Montana, if a local power company built a dam to supply it with power?
• ... that a portion of Black Eagle Dam was dynamited on April 14, 1908, so that floodwaters from the collapsed Hauser Dam could pass through?
• ... that merchant Lester S. Willson and his wife entertained members of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition in their home on the evening before the expedition left to explore Yellowstone?
• ... that although the Montana Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, was established in 1895, the first game warden was not hired until 1898?
• ... that construction of Holter Dam ceased in 1910 for six years after the 1908 collapse of Hauser Dam almost drove the company constructing Holter into bankruptcy?
• ... that Michigan's 1892/1893 captain George Dygert played professional football for a Butte, Montana, team sponsored by mine owners that defeated teams from Denver and San Francisco?
• ... that the first Territorial Governor of Montana, Sidney Edgerton, fought as a Squirrel Hunter during the American Civil War?
• ... that Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
• ... that according to the folklore of the Crow Nation, the Little People of the Pryor Mountains were dwarves so violent and fearsome they could tear the heart out of an enemy's horse?
• ... that Hell Gate, a ghost town in western Montana, was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864?
• ... that some of the thrust horses in Montana's Adel Mountains Volcanic Field fold some of the intrusions, while others are cut by them?
• ... that some geologists say the Great Falls Tectonic Zone is a shear, while others argue it is a suture?
• ... that the first African American to see the Great Falls of the Missouri River was York, a slave who participated in the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
• ... that Theodore Roosevelt called Medicine Rocks in Montana "as fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen"?
• ... that Montana's Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (namesake landform pictured) was designated a federal wilderness study area in 1981, delisted in 1982, and designated again in 1985?
• ... that Montana's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
• ... the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska is -70 °F (-56.66 °C) at Rogers Pass, Montana?
• ... that Pokey Allen, former head coach of the Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
• ... that William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan?
• ... that Katie Blair became the first teenager from Montana to place in the Miss Teen USA pageant's 24 year history, when she won the Miss Teen USA 2006 crown?
• ... that, as a result of track switchbacks on either side of a mountain pass, all trains of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad crossed over the U.S. continental divide running backwards?
• ... that Sam Peckinpah, director of the The Wild Bunch, lived in a three-room suite at The Murray Hotel in Livingston, Montana, from 1979 to 1984?
• ... that Louis Levine, a member of the faculty at University of Montana, published a book in 1919 called "The Taxation of Mines in Montana", and was fired for doing so?