Identifier: storyofmontana00foga_0 (find matches)
Title: The story of Montana
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Fogarty, Kate Hammond, -1936
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Publisher: New York and Chicago, The A. S. Barnes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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people, but there had been verylittle crime to punish. Many of the citizens were sowell satisfied with the vigilante code that they re-luctantly welcomed the civil officers, declaring theyneeded no better law for their protection than theyalready had. But they readily conformed to thelaws, and the vigilantes rule gradually disappeared. New interests. — When the settlers felt safe fromcrime they began to take an interest in other affairs.There were many subjects to be discussed, such asthe creation of the new Territory of Montana, theestablishment of Government mails (Julj^ 1st, 1864),with its consequent regular stage transportation fromSalt Lake City, the installation of Government offi-cers, the election and action of our first LegislativeAssembly, the construction of a telegraph line, thepermission of the Government to have newspaperstransmitted in the mails, the building of the UnionPacific Railroad. These were, in the words of theHonorable W. F. Sanders, events in which w^e took
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MONTANA MADE A TERRITORY 147 a profound interest and which deeply affected thematerial and social interests of these communities. Montana a territory. — Montana had been a partof Idaho since March, 1861. In 1864 a bill wasintroduced into Congress by J. M. Ashley (who wasthen on the territorial Committee, and was after-ward one of the Governors of Montana), which askedfor the creation of a territory named Montana.After the boundaries were discussed some one askedhim where he had found the name Montana, and heanswered that it was a Latin name meaning moun-tainous. The name was adopted and the bill waspassed on the 22nd of May, 1864. Bannack wasmade the capital of the new territory, the courtsorganized October 20th, and the first legislature con-vened December 12th of the same year. Governor Edgerton. — The first governor of theterritory was Sidney Edgerton, who had been livingin Bannack while it was still in Idaho Territory. Hehad been the judge of the Idaho courts. The gov-ernor wa

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