Montana Board Info
The board reads "Along in the early 1840's Americans were like they are now--seething to go somewhere. It got around that Oregon was quite a place. The Iowa people hadn't located California yet. A wagon trail pulled out and made it on the Oregon trail. Then everyone broke out in a rash to be going west. They packed prairie schooners with their household goods, gods and garden tools. Outside of Indians, prairie fires, cholora, famine, cyclones, cloud bursts, and quick sand, snow slides and blizzards, they had a torerably blithe and gay trip. When gold was found in Montana some of them forked off from the main party and surged along this trail aiming to reach the rainbows end. It was mostly one way traffic but if they met a back-tracking outfit there was plenty of room to turn out.
Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more 
