15 Facts About Montana

I know it’s cold and not a whole lot else.

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In looking through images for this story I was reminded that Montana has bison. Thanks to my brother-in-law, I’ve also heard of the Matthew Quigley Buffalo Rifle Match in Forsyth, Montana. It’s an offshoot of that great Tom Selleck movie, Quigley Down Under. It actually sounds like a neat event.

I also believe that Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call drove a cattle herd to Montana and established a ranch there. What’s that? It turns out that Lonesome Dove wasn’t a documentary. Well, armed with that information, here are some things you didn’t know about Montana.

1: Montana does not have an official nickname but does have some unofficial ones including “Big Sky Country.”

Another is “Place Where You Can Freeze Your Buns Off.”

2: The fastest growing sector of Montana’s economy is tourism.

I’m sure the department of tourism doesn’t emphasize the “freeze your buns off” thing.

3: In 1918 Montana passed the Montana Sedition Act, which basically made saying anything against the government illegal. Based on that law, 200…