Bozeman, Montana For citizens titled Bozeman, see Bozeman (surname).
Bozeman, Montana Aerial view of Bozeman Aerial view of Bozeman Flag of Bozeman, Montana Flag Official seal of Bozeman, Montana Location of Bozeman, Montana Location of Bozeman, Montana Bozeman, Montana is positioned in the US Bozeman, Montana - Bozeman, Montana Bozeman is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Gallatin County, Montana, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.
The 2010 census put Bozeman's populace at 37,280 and the 2015 census estimate put the populace at 43,405 making it the fourth biggest city in the state. It is the principal town/city of the Bozeman, MT Micropolitan Statistical Area, consisting of all of Gallatin County with a populace of 97,304. It is the biggest Micropolitan Travel Destination in Montana and is the third biggest of all of Montana's statistical areas. Bozeman who established the Bozeman Trail and was a key founder of the town in August 1864.
Bozeman was propel an All-America City in 2001 by the National Civic League. Bozeman is a college town, home to Montana State University. The small-town journal is the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and the town/city is served by Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport.
1.2.1 John Bozeman For thousands of years indigenous citizens of the United States, including the Shoshone, Nez Perce, Blackfeet, Flathead, Crow Nation and Sioux traveled through the area, called the "Valley of the Flowers", although the Gallatin Valley, in which Bozeman is located, was primarily inside the territory of the Crow citizens .
John Bozeman The party camped 3 miles (4.8 km) east of what is now Bozeman, at the mouth of Kelly Canyon.
In 1863 John Bozeman, along with a partner titled John Jacobs, opened the Bozeman Trail, a new northern trail off the Oregon Trail dominant to the quarrying town of Virginia City through the Gallatin Valley and the future locale of the town/city of Bozeman.
John Bozeman, with Daniel Rouse and William Beall platted the town in August 1864, stating "standing right in the gate of the mountain peaks ready to swallow up all tenderfeet that would reach the territory from the east, with their golden fleeces to be taken care of". Red Cloud's War closed the Bozeman Trail in 1868, but the town's fertile territory thriving permanent settlers.
In 1866 Nelson Story, a prosperous Virginia City, Montana, gold miner originally from Ohio entered the cattle business.
Story braved the hostile Bozeman Trail to successfully drive some 1000 head of longhorn cattle into Paradise Valley just east of Bozeman.
Army, who tried to turn Story back to protect the drive from hostile Indians, Story's cattle formed one of the earliest momentous herds in Montana's cattle industry. Story established a sizeable ranch in the Paradise Valley and holdings in the Gallatin Valley.
He later donated territory to the state for the establishment of Montana State University Bozeman. La - Motte and two companies of the 2nd Cavalry, after the mysterious death of John Bozeman near the mouth of Mission Creek on Yellowstone River 45 42 52 N 110 23 20 W, and considerable political disturbance in the region led small-town pioneer and miners to feel a need for added protection.
The fort, titled for Gettysburg casualty Colonel Augustus Van Horne Ellis, was decommissioned in 1886 and several remnants are left at the actual site, now occupied by the Fort Ellis Experimental Station of Montana State University. In addition to Fort Ellis, a short-lived fort, Fort Elizabeth Meagher (also simply known as Fort Meagher), was established in 1867 by volunteer militiamen.
The first copy of the weekly Avant Courier newspaper, the precursor of today's Bozeman Chronicle was presented in Bozeman on September 13, 1871. Bozeman Main Street, 1875 Bozeman's chief cemetery, Sunset Hills Cemetery, ted to the town/city in 1872 when the English lawyer and philanthropist William Henry Blackmore purchased the territory after his wife Mary Blackmore died of pneumonia in Bozeman in July 1872. The first library in Bozeman was formed by the Young Men's Library Association in a room above a drugstore in 1872.
The first Grange meeting in Montana Territory was held in Bozeman in 1873. The Northern Pacific Railway reached Bozeman from the east in 1883. By 1900 Bozeman's populace reached 3,500.
Fish and Wildlife Service's Bozeman National Fish Hatchery, later a fish technology and fish community center.
Montana State University - Bozeman was established in 1893 as the state's land-grant college, then titled the Agricultural College of the State of Montana.
By the 1920s, the institution was known as Montana State College, and in 1965 it became Montana State University. Bozeman's first high school, the Gallatin Valley High School, was assembled on West Main Street in 1902.
Later known as Willson School, titled for notable Bozeman architect Fred Fielding Willson, son of Lester S.
Willson, the building still stands today and functions as administrative offices for the Bozeman School District. In the early 20th century, over 17,000 acres (69 km2) of the Gallatin Valley were planted in edible peas harvested for both canning and seed. By the 1920s, canneries in the Bozeman region were primary producers of canned peas, and at one point Bozeman produced approximately 75% of all seed peas in the United States. The region was once known as the "Sweet Pea capital of the nation" referencing the prolific edible pea crop.
Many years later, while empty, it was a film location, along with downtown Bozeman, in A River Runs Through It (1992) by Robert Redford, starring Brad Pitt.
The Bridger Bowl Ski Area45 49 02 N 110 53 48 W operates as a 501(c)(4) organization by the Bridger Bowl Association, and is positioned on the northeast face of the Bridger Mountains, utilizing state and federal land. Bridger Bowl was Bozeman's first ski region and opened to the enhance in 1955. In 1973 news anchorman Chet Huntley created the Big Sky Ski Resort off Gallatin Canyon 40 miles (64 km) south of Bozeman.
The Museum of the Rockies was created in 1957 as t from Butte physician Caroline Mc - Gill and is a part of Montana State University and an partner institution of the Smithsonian.
It is Montana's premier natural and cultural history exhibition and homes permanent exhibits on dinosaurs, geology and Montana history, as well as a planetarium and a living history farm.
Bozeman receives a steady influx of new inhabitants and visitors in part due to its plentiful recreational activities such as fly fishing, hiking, whitewater kayaking, and mountain climbing.
Additionally, Bozeman is a gateway improve through which visitors pass on the way to Yellowstone National Park and its abundant wildlife and thermal features.
Main Street Bozeman, 2011 In the past forty years, Bozeman has grown from the sixth- to the fourth-largest town/city in the state. The region attracts new inhabitants due to character of life, scenery, and close-by recreation.
In August 2010, Bozeman was chose by Outside as the best place to live in the west for skiing. Growth in the Gallatin Valley prompted the Gallatin Airport Authority to authorize a primary expansion of the Gallatin Field Airport with two new gates, an period passenger screening area, and a third baggage carousel. Gallatin Field was later retitled Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport. Bozeman is positioned at an altitude of 4,820 feet or 1,470 metres. The Bridger Mountains are to the north-northeast, the Tobacco Root Mountains to the west-south-west, the Big Belt Mountains and Horseshoe Hills to the northwest, the Hyalite Peaks of the northern Gallatin Range to the south and the Spanish Peaks of the northern Madison Range to the south-southwest.
Bozeman is east of the continental divide, and Interstate 90 passes through the city.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.15 square miles (49.60 km2), of which, 19.12 square miles (49.52 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. Bozeman experiences a dry continental climate (Koppen Dfb).
Bozeman and the encircling area receives decidedly higher rainfall than much of the central and easterly parts of the state, up to 24 inches or 610 millimetres of rain annually vs.
This undoubtedly contributed to the early nickname "Valley of the Flowers" and the establishment of MSU as the state's agricultural college. Bozeman has cold, snowy winters and mostly warm summers, though due to elevation, temperature shifts from day to evening can be significant.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Bozeman was 105 F (40.6 C) on July 31, 1892.
Climate data for Bozeman Montana State University (Western Regional Climate Center station) Bozeman became an incorporated Montana town/city in April 1883 and adopted a town/city council form of government. Currently, the City of Bozeman uses a town/city commission/city manager form of government which the people adopted on January 1, 1922 with an propel Municipal Judge.
Fire Department Bozeman is served by the Bozeman Fire Department which is a full-time longterm position fire department.
The Bozeman Fire Department responded to approximately 3,900 emergency calls in 2014. Park, Recreation and Cemetery Department Operates the Sunset Hills Cemetery, maintains enhance parks throughout the town/city to include the East Gallatin Recreation Area and conducts recreational programs for the people of Bozeman. The Bozeman School District operates one high school-Bozeman High School; two middle schools Chief Joseph Middle School and Sacajawea Middle School; and eight elementary schools Emily Dickinson Elementary School, Hawthorne Elementary School, Hyalite Elementary School, Irving Elementary School, Longfellow Elementary School, Meadowlark Elementary School, Morning Star Elementary School, and Whittier Elementary School. The precinct also operates the Bridger Alternative Program as a branch ground of Bozeman High School to serve "at-risk" secondary students. Willson School, originally a high school, then a middle school, then the base for an alternative high school, is still owned by the school precinct and homes a number of school precinct offices.
Mount Ellis Academy is a co-educational boarding high school (grades 9 through 12) affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church,and Headwaters Academy near the ground of Montana State University.
Bozeman Avant Courier presented 1871 1905 The Bozeman Courier publisher 1919 1954 Bozeman Daily Chronicle is the current small-town daily paper, owned by Pioneer Newspapers Bozeman Magazine is a no-charge monthly publication.
The Bo - Zone Entertainment and Events Calendar has been publishing since 1993, a no-charge biweekly printed announcement owned by Bozeman Entertainment, LLC KUSM 9 PBS, Montana State University Bozeman The Bozeman region has served as a recording site for a number of films, including The Wildest Dream, A River Runs Through It, A Plumm Summer and Amazing Grace and Chuck. Aside from being shot in Bozeman, A Plumm Summer featured two small-town actors, Ben Trotter and John Hosking, as well as many small-town extras.
Films shot in the close-by Paradise Valley south of Livingston and Big Timber areas, such as The Horse Whisperer and Rancho Deluxe also headquartered out of Bozeman due to its status as the biggest improve in the small-town trade area. In prominent music, the members of the noise modern group Steel Pole Bath Tub are originally from Bozeman, and wrote a song titled "Bozeman" on their third album, The Miracle of Sound in Motion.
The 1980s difficult modern band Vixen also featured a former Bozeman resident, Janet Gardner, as lead singer. Literary references include the Bozeman region and real-life Bozeman artists Bob and Gennie De - Weese as a key setting in Robert Pirsig's novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; the narrator was a professor teaching English composition while developing his philosophical ideas, reflecting the author's own history Pirsig himself taught at Montana State. John Steinbeck passed through Bozeman via the former U.S.
Bozeman has been referenced in the science fiction charter Star Trek, most likely due to the influence of writer Brannon Braga, a native of Bozeman.
Per the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Desert Crossing", the Bozeman region was the fictional site of Earth's first contact with an alien species (the Vulcans) on April 5, 2063, as recounted in the film Star Trek: First Contact, though the movie was not filmed in Montana.
A starship titled the USS Bozeman appears in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect"; it is mentioned in the episode "All Good Things...", the films Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, and the First Contact prequel novel Ship of the Line by Diane Carey.
Bozeman was featured in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Bozeman Reaction", an episode where Sheldon Cooper briefly moves to Bozeman.
On March 5, 2009, the town/city of Bozeman made nationwide news when an early morning explosion finished three buildings in the historic downtown area.
In June of the same year, Bozeman was once again in the nationwide news when it was reported that the town/city government was requesting job applicants furnish their user names and passwords to civil networking sites.
After the initial news story aired, the Bozeman City Commissioner received e-mails and phone calls expressing indignation about the practice from athwart the nation.
Bozeman inhabitants were astonished and alarmed by the request.
Bozeman straddles east-west Interstate 90 and is approximately 85 miles (137 km) east of north-south Interstate 15 in Butte, Montana.
Highway 191 joins Bozeman with Big Sky and West Yellowstone to the south.
Bozeman is serviced by Montana Rail Link, a privately held, Class II barns that joins Spokane, Washington with Huntley, Montana.
Bozeman has directed a no-charge enhance bus fitness called Streamline since 2006. Streamline operates four routes covering the University, Bozeman-Deaconess Hospital, Gallatin Valley Mall, 7th Avenue and 19th Avenue shopping areas, and downtown.
The Gallatin Big Sky Transportation District has directed the Skyline bus service between Bozeman and Big Sky since December 2006. One of the three primary county-wide airports serving southwest Montana is Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport 45 46 39 N 111 09 11 W positioned 8 miles (13 km) west of Bozeman on the outskirts of Belgrade, Montana.
It primarily serves travelers to Bozeman, Big Sky, West Yellowstone and Yellowstone National Park.
A lesser commercial airport is positioned in West Yellowstone, 90 miles (140 km) south of Bozeman.
The following individuals are either notable current or former inhabitants of Bozeman (R), were born or raised in Bozeman in their early years (B), or otherwise have a momentous connection to the history of the Bozeman region (C).
John Bozeman, pioneer and founder of the Bozeman Trail C Henry Comstock, a discoverer of the Comstock Lode died (suicide) in Bozeman on September 29, 1870 C Gustavus Cheyney Doane, member of Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition 1870 and buried in Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bozeman Nelson Story, prominent cattleman and merchant in Bozeman's early years R Willson, prominent merchant in Bozeman's early years R John Mayer, musician, presently resides in a home he purchased "in the Bozeman area" as stated to an interview on "The Ellen De - Generes Show" R Albert, Alfred and Chris Schlechten multi-generation family of photographers noted for portraiture and images of Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin Valley. R, R, B James Willard Schultz, author and Glacier National Park explorer, lived in Bozeman 1928 29 with partner Jessica Mc - Donald, professor at Montana State; R Schultz's papers are archived at Montana State Burlingame Special Collections Library. Michael Spears, actor, calls Bozeman home as stated to an article from "The Montana Pioneer" R Eddie Spears, actor, calls Bozeman home as stated to an article from "The Montana Pioneer" R Christopher Langan, scientist with one of the highest recorded IQs was born in San Francisco but interval up mostly in Bozeman.
Henshall, 1st superintendent of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center C Pirsig, author and past instructor of English and rhetoric at Montana State University R Hartman, United States Congressman from Montana R Stan Jones, Libertarian Party candidate for Montana governor and United States Senator R Bozeman's biggest employers include Montana State University Bozeman 45 40 06 N 111 03 00 W as well as at least two dozen high-tech companies engaged in research or manufacturing of lasers and other optical equipment, over a dozen bio-tech companies, and a several large software companies. Nationally known companies based in Bozeman include Newport/ILX Lightwave, Quantel USA, Right - Now Technologies, Gibson Guitar Corporation, and Simms Fishing Products.
Notable non-profit organizations based in Bozeman include the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) and Eagle Mount.
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