Montana Senate Candidates for Senator, MT Election Race 2012
State Primary on June 5, 2012 Montana Senator Election RaceRepublican Senator CandidatesDenny Rehberg (R)Dennis Teske (R) Democrat Senator CandidatesJon Tester (D)Melinda Gopher (D) Montana Candidates for US Congress from MT Tyler Gernant (D) History of Montana. Information that every Montana Election Candidates for US Senate Should Know:Lewis and Clark traveled through Montana by going up the Missouri River and over the mountains in the year 1804, and returned in the year 1806. Fur trappers and at times missionaries also visited Montana. Settlers started moving into the area, by wagon train. There was cattle ranching and sheep ranching. Numerous treaties gained land from the Indians. Gold was discovered at Bannack in 1862. Numerous outlaws were hanged by vigilantes. Montana became a Territory in 1864, and Bannack was its first capital. Helena later became the capital. In 1870 Colonel Eugene Baker with 200 soldiers attacked a peaceful Blackfeet village, in retaliation for the murder of a white man by other Indians, and killed 173 men, women, and children. In 1872, Yellowstone Park became the first National Park, parts of it are in Montana. In the 1870's and 1880's, gold, silver, and copper mining, at Butte, became big business.
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