The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. Cutting through the heart of Indian country.

The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. Cutting through the heart of Indian country.

Before that, the route to Montana gold fields came past Salt Lake City on the Oregon Trail and then went north through Idaho. Bozeman and Jacob’s new path cut about 450 miles off the distance.

State lawmakers and Montana’s congressional delegation are urged to get behind an effort to designate the Bozeman Trail as a national historic trail. Not only did this 500-mile-plus route play ...

I-90, MP 419, Columbus rest area ...

In the early 1860s there wasn’t a ranch in this country from Bismarck to Bozeman and from the PlatteRiver to Canada. To whites it was land considered “fit only to raise Indians” and while ...