Here Are 10 Things They Don't Teach You About Montana In School

That's a fun and random fact.

The gold rush was good for Helena's growth.

Now you know.

Wives, we'd be happy to tell your husbands that doing dishes is illegal as well.

There were 30 to 40 cases alone in the 1970s. And it seems like it happens at random every couple of years, at various parts of the state. And while typically most people would just assume the cows' predator had gotten carried away, there never seem to be any bite marks that would indicate a predator was to blame. And no vehicle tracks or footprints are found around the cows' bodies.

In 1846, the Morgan family was crossing the area in a covered wagon on their way to settle in Oregon. When Mr. Morgan didn't return from retrieving the oxen, Mrs. Morgan sent her three children to find them. She soon found her family being gruesomely murdered by Blackfeet Indians. Mrs. Morgan fought back, splitting several Blackfeet heads open and sending them running for the hills. It was sadly too late for her family. Mrs. Morgan didn't live long after that, but the Blackfeet started calling them the Crazy Mountains, and the name stuck.

18% of Montana homesteaders were unmarried women, and it was not unusual to see a black man – often a freed slave – as a cowboy or a fur trader.

Even the wildlife knows Montana is the place to be.

Native Americans are about 6% of our population.