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Montana Definition

Mon·tana (män tanə)

Mountain State of the NW U.S.: admitted, 1889; 145,552 sq mi (376,979 sq km); pop. 902,000; cap. Helena: abbrev. MT or Mont

Etymology: L montana, mountainous regions: see mountain

Montana Quotes

The cowboys had lived for months under the great bowl of the sky, and yet the Montana skies seemed deeper than the skies of Texas or Nebraska. Their depth and blueness robbed even the sun of its harsh forceöit seemed smaller, in the vastness, and the whole sky no longer turned white at noon as it had in the lower plains. Always, somewhere to the north, there was a swath of blueness, with white cloads floating in it like petals in a pond. 537

—McMurtry, LarryJeff