46 out of Montana's 56 counties are considered "frontier counties" with an average population of 6 or fewer people per square mile.
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The moose, now numbering over 8,000 in Montana, was thought to be extinct in the Rockies south of Canada in the 1900s.
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Just south of Billings, Montana, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his troops made their last stand. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument features the Plains Indians and United States military involved in the historic battle.