At three times the size of Pennsylvania, with a county bigger than the whole state of Connecticut, Montana is a large place, once described as "bounded on the w

Surveys the development of the state, bringing into view Montana's historical role as a key producer of furs, metals, cattle, and agricultural products and the

With the exception of oceans, boundaries are artificial, man-made divisions of geography that many times make little sense and sometimes no sense at all. For ex

" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in