STOCK-GROWING OUT WEST. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



MONTANA. 



A Great State — The Chances for the Emigrant — Farmers of 

 Montana and what they Own — A Stock-Grower's Letter and 

 Experience. 



Just west of Dakota and north of Wyoming is a 

 very rich Territory called Montana. The climate is 

 delightful during the summer months, it not being too 

 warm, and at night a person finds it necessary to sleep 

 under one or more blankets. Much of the time the 

 atmosphere is hazy, — not unlike an Indian summer in 

 the Eastern States. During the winter the weather is 

 extremely cold, and people easily get frost-bitten by 

 exposure. It is never very windy, but quiet, still, cold 

 weather, which sometimes is exceedingly pleasant. 



Montana is well named, for it is a succession of high 

 mountains and broad valleys. The grazing cannot be 

 excelled in any country in the world, and much of the 

 stock runs out all the winter, though there is by no 

 means any lack of snow. In the springtime the stock 

 is fat, and it is fair to say that no better beef can be 

 found. Horses and cattle and sheep thrive and look 



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