What to see in America . River. Bismarck, thecapital, was settled in 1873. It has about as great a variationof temperature as any location in the country. In summerthe thermometer occasionally registers over one hundreddegrees and in winter it sometimes goes more than fortydegrees below zero. In the sparsely settled district fartherwest large numbers of prairie dogs may be seen. At Belfieldbegin the Bad Lands, a name that refers to the difficultyof travel there and not to the soil, which affords excellentgrazing. Another name for the region is Pyramid Park. 334 What to See in America Steep man
What to see in America . River. Bismarck, thecapital, was settled in 1873. It has about as great a variationof temperature as any location in the country. In summerthe thermometer occasionally registers over one hundreddegrees and in winter it sometimes goes more than fortydegrees below zero. In the sparsely settled district fartherwest large numbers of prairie dogs may be seen. At Belfieldbegin the Bad Lands, a name that refers to the difficultyof travel there and not to the soil, which affords excellentgrazing. Another name for the region is Pyramid Park. 334 What to See in America Steep many-tinted buttes carved by wind, frost, and rainrise from the plain in all directions and have many fantasticshapes and greatly variegated coloring. The most elevatedpoint in the state is in Bowman County in the southwesterncorner, 3500 feet high. Dakota is an Indian word. It means allied, and refersto a great confederation of tribes that inhabited this sectionof the country. The people of North Dakota are Blackfeet Camp on Two Medicine Lake XL Montana Montana is the third largest state in the Union. It has aSpanish name which means Mountain Land. The namefairly describes it, and hence its popular name of Stub-toe State seems appropriate. Its highest mountain isGranite Peak in th-e southern part not far from the Wyomingline, with an altitude of 12,850 feet. Soon after passingBillings, on a clear day, the traveler, going west on theNorthern Pacific Railroad, gets his first glimpse of the RockyMountains, or Shining Mountains as they used to becalled in the early descriptions. They are directly ahead,nearly one hundred miles away. Within a few years after Lewis and Clark made theirfamous expedition across the continent, fur companiesestablished trading posts on various rivers in what is nowMontana. The most important of these posts was Fort 335 336 What to See in America Benton at the head of navigation on the Missouri. Thiscame into being in 1846. Gold was first d
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