1860 First steamboat arrives in Fort Benton (Chapter 6)

1861–1865 Civil War

1862 Montana gold rush begins (Chapter 6)

1862 Homestead Act passed

1863 Bozeman Trail opens (Chapter 6)

1864 Organic Act creates Montana Territory (Chapter 6)

1866 First cattle drive from Texas into Montana (Chapter 8)

1866 Montana Territory holds first constitutional convention (Chapter 10)

1866–1868 Red Cloud’s War (Chapter 7)

1868 Second Fort Laramie Treaty (Chapter 7)

1869 First transcontinental railroad completed