Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

CHAPTER XXIV.
MONTANA —NING, AGRICULTURAL RESOUCES, HISTORY
AND CLIMATE.
This territory was formerly a part of Idaho, but
after gold was discovered here, and mining towns
grew up, and settlement began, it was found that
the immense mountain rainges embraced in the limits of Idaho formed such barriers to past legislative communication and intercourse-the East from
the West-that a division of the territory was de
manded, and granted by Congress in 1864, setting off
all the country lying east of the summit of the Bitter
Root Mountain range, and erecting the present territory of Montana, the largest territory of the United
States, covering an area of considerably more than
201,000 square miles. Previous to 1860, when gold
was discovered here, very little was known of this
immense territory except as the mountain man's
home, for hunting and trapping, on the head waters
and streams of the several branches of the Missouri,
which, like the limbs of a tree, reach in all directions through the entire territory, giving water communication with the east as far as Fort Benton, just
a)ove the great Miss,luri Fall.. Thte Yell,),, Stone,
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