1890 Census records list Montana's population as 142,924

1891 Forest Reserve Act (Chapter 12)

1891 Salish forced from the Bitterroot Valley (Chapter 7)

1893 Panic of l893 and collapse of the silver market (Chapter 10)

1894 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad enters Montana (Chapter 9)

1894 Voters choose Helena as state capital (Chapter 10)

1895 Blackfeet cede land that becomes Glacier National Park (Chapter 11)

1896 Assiniboine and Gros Ventre cede part of the Little Rocky Mountains (Chapter 11)

1896 Height of the Populist movement

1899 William A. Clark elected to U.S. Senate but resigns amid bribery scandal (Chapter 10)