Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The Big Picture
New methods of transportation always change life and society. Railroads changed life in Montana in the 1880s just as much as the coming of the horse did in the 1700s.

LISTEN TO FIND OUT:
■ Why railroads wanted to come to Montana
■ Why Montana needed railroads
■ Why the railroads shrank Indian reservations even further
■ Why the Northern Pacific Railroad became Montana’s biggest landowner
■ How railroads changed life here