So what's 'BETTER' about Western Montana ?
You drink delicious, pure water right out of the
faucet...
The air is so clean and clear, the sky is
almost unrecognizable
Those eight to ten thousand foot mountains are right there,
magnificent postcard vistas, just about everywhere
you look....
Wildlife living free and naturally all around
you
A truly magical area where many of America's most influential, well-traveled
and
celebrated choose to live, at least part of
each year, in ever increasing numbers
Genuine, friendly, happy people ... anxious to stop and talk; Smiles
and friendly greetings
all day, everyday... Even teenagers are courteous
and friendly.....
Fewer people (less than one million in the whole State)
less traffic, congestion, waiting, stress
.... and housing is still very affordable.....
Honesty and fairness are considered standard operating procedure,
where real freedom is the accepted way of
life..
"Good Medicine lies all around...." An appropriate
and heartfelt description by an American Indian council leader,
to describe Montana, 'The Treasure State.'
Montana's Rocky Mountains form a total of fifty ranges, up to Granite
Peak at almost 13,000 feet! Our 4 th largest state, about three
times the size of England, large enough to hold eleven eastern states.
Yet holding less than 1,000,000 people, with two national parks,
ten national forests, forty-four state parks, eight million acres
of Bureau of Land Management lands...
Five to six million tourists visit Montana each year, providing
Montana's vast and everexpanding services (food & lodging,
banks/financial, retailers, real estate, government and transportation)
based economy. Agriculture, livestock, lumber, mining, oil and coal
production make up the remainder of Montana's extremely healthy
economy. Biotech, science and technology, with the excellent University
System, are helping to produce one of the fastest growing overall
economies in the United States...
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Gall and Chief Joseph lived
and died here. Sacagawea guided Lewis and Clark here, and received
the Jefferson Peace Medal. Mary Fields,born a slave in Tennessee,
became the second woman in the United States to deliver the federal
mail, and once beat a man in a gunfight. In 1916 Jeannette Rankin
became the first woman U.S. Congresswoman ever elected. Grace Eldering
is credited for developing the first vaccines against whooping cough,
diphtheria and tetanus. Montana Senator Mike Mansfield helped write
and pass laws to lower the voting age, and became the U.S. Ambassador
to Japan. Charlie Russell, certainly one of modem history's most
famous western artists, was a Montana native.
Given it's unsurpassed natural beauty, uncrowded, unpolluted, extremely
clean environment, it comes as no surprise that Montana is becoming
known as " THE LAST BEST PLACE.
Take a look for yourself:
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