1880 First train enters Montana territory (Chapter 9)

1880–1934 Indian boarding school era (Chapter 11)

1880 Artist Charlie M. Russell arrives in Montana (Chapter 8)

1881 Utah and Northern Railroad arrives in Butte (Chapter 9)

1881 Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S Army (Chapter 11)

1883 Fewer than 200 bison remain on the Plains (Chapter 7)

1883 Northern Pacific Railroad completes transcontinental route (Chapter 9)

1883 Copper boom begins in Butte (Chapter 10)

1883-1884 Many members of the northern tribes die during Starvation Winter (Chapter 10)

1884 Montana Territory holds second constitutional convention (Chapter 10)

1886–1887 Hard Winter (Chapter 8)

1887 Northern reservation reduced by 17 million acres (Chapter 11)

1887 Dawes Act (Chapter 11)

1887 Great Northern Railway enters Montana (Chapter 9)

1889 Montana becomes a state (Chapter 10)

1889 Montana adopts secret ballot (Chapter 10)