In 1993, a Montana school staged a real trial for a sheriff hanged without one in 1864. The jury deadlocked 6-6. A pardon petition followed — and was denied for a reason no one expected.

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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/events/1993-posthumous-trial-of-henry-plummer

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A Las Vegas casino heir. A Montana ranch. A contractor from Missoula. When Ted Binion lost his beloved 90,000-acre Jordan spread, his world unraveled fast — and a chance encounter with a fellow “Montana boy” set the stage for murder, buried silver, and one of Vegas’s most infamous trials.

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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/ted-binion

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The Flathead Indian Reservation — home to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes — spans 1.3M acres in NW Montana. From the 1855 Hell Gate Treaty to the 2015 takeover of Kerr Dam, its history is one of resistance, adaptation, and enduring sovereignty.

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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/flathead-indian-reservation

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Seen somewhere in the wilds of eastern Montana today, egg day 2026.

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Norman Maclean grew up in Missoula, fished the Blackfoot, and fought fires in the Bitterroots — then spent 46 years teaching at the University of Chicago before publishing his first book at 73. A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire made him one of Montana’s defining literary voices.

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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/norman-maclean

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Montana’s National Bison Range, established in 1908 to rescue a species on the edge of extinction, has a history as complex as the landscape it occupies — from a narrowly averted ecological catastrophe to a landmark transfer of federal land back to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/national-bison-range

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John “Liver-Eating” Johnston: Montana lawman, Civil War vet, Army scout — and subject of one of the West’s most outrageous legends. But how much is true? The real story is stranger, and more complicated, than any Hollywood myth.

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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/john-johnston

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A lone stranger walked into Fort Benton in 1856 carrying a sack of gold — then vanished. Who was John Silverthorne, where did he find it, and why did Montana’s pioneers spend decades arguing over his secret?

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https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/mystery-of-john-silverthorne

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The Legislator Who Crossed the Aisle: Sam Kitzenberg, a Glasgow, MT teacher-turned-Republican senator, served 14 years championing Hi-Line infrastructure, education, and the Fort Peck Fish Hatchery. In 2006 he switched parties, tipping Senate control to Democrats — a controversial move that defined his legacy. See link below for full article.

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17,000 Montanans packed the Yellowstone County Fairgrounds on Sept. 25, 1963, to hear President Kennedy speak on conservation and the newly ratified Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. It was his second Billings visit; the first came during his 1960 campaign. He was assassinated in Dallas less than two months later. See link below for full article.

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