Page 3 Montana Governors records 1889-1962.

              I'orty years traia tepsj« to temple Miight be  said to
«353)rtssi¥ely ectiipass the lilstory of Montana,   &o recent lias
been the beginning of the  duTelcpment  of tlxis jG-iMg tmmber
of the great  sistsrhcod of St«tsa.    Less tlian half a cen¬
tury i*gy tiiQ rea Man rcmmd at will thro-agl"! tids country,
iiXid v^ixiihor aiigag^sd in lila prlmitiT© tports,   im tlie ciiaae
6,r ths  buff ale,   in "Eiaking roeuioiiie** about   tlie coimcil fir©,
or in pa»Bing the winter days  in oalEi. content   in ta® oorafort
of his wigwam, lis was B.'blB to say that hB w&s moaarcii of all
he  surT0y®<i.
According to h.ist or leal  i.nformB.fAon^   it   :la novr just
& centunr since  the firot building to bo erected hy a whita
man witiiin the borders of what  is now Montarxa was constraot-
ed--this haing located en  the Yellcwstone  river,   the builder
"being Itoaii,ueX Lisa,   and  tho   structure coraing to he  knowi as
Lisa's Fort.
Biit this land of tha  Indian and the buffalo possess¬
ed in those days little  attraction for the  world beyonci th®
Ohio»  and rery few h©sJ.da the hardiest  of the trappers,   Bcoats
and plainerserj. ©Ter forced their way  into tha wilderness.
Early in th© sixtief,  hower&r^   som© of the aiore ad-
renttirouB spirits of the last,  purBtdng their quest for gold.,
came  into the cowutry and alBiost  inot^uitly found t.h©lr cireaa®
eaas true*     Sold was discover0{i--gol<i in great  quantities—
and ths aaglo wor4 was not long in finding its ¥«'ay bacic to
the land whence they had ooim,    I'ellov/eiJ tha rush of fortune-
Bsehsrs,   and with the.©, casaa  s©a&  of    uudesirahle  character,
tmn whose ahssnce froB the hcai^s  of their youth was enforced,
and the need of soias fong. cf organigad gOYarmaent  spesdily
hacacie apT.aront,     At Bannack,   in the  Bouthern part  of the
Stats,   this gorertmient  was first  estaolished,  and the Terri¬
tory of Montana «as organised in 1864,  Bannaclc being the
first capital.