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		<title>MTHousingSearch.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a place to rent in Montana? Then check out MTHousingSearch.com and see if you can find what you want. There are over 3,000 listings and they are in English and Spanish so this should make it easier to find a place.
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		<title>&#8220;Last Best Place&#8221; worth guarding, Congress says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Last Best Place,&#8221; a phrase long used and cherished by Montanans to describe their sprawling, scenic state, will soon be protected forever, a U.S. senator says, and anyone will be able to use it without fear of running afoul of trademark law.
Read the rest of the article here.
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		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/19/last-best-place-worth-guarding-congress-says/</link>
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		<title>Today in Montana History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 17, 1940
Just before midnight, a massive earthquake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale, strikes the area north and west of Yellowstone National Park. A mountain slide wipes out a campground, killing twenty-nine people. The great rock slide blocks the Madison River, forming what is now called Quake Lake.
There is also extensive damage in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/17/today-in-montana-history-13/</link>
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		<title>Today in Montana History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 16, 1940
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area is established by an act of the United States Congress. This pristine wilderness area comprised of over one million acres in northwestern Montana is named in honor of Bob Marshall, a major advocate for wilderness preservation. Marshall, noted for his hiking exploits where he sometimes walks up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/16/today-in-montana-history-12/</link>
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		<title>Today in Montana History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 15, 1865
Conrad Kohrs purchases John Grant’s ranch in the Deer Lodge Valley. The Grant-Kohrs Ranch is now a popular tourist attraction in Deer Lodge, where it serves as a national working-ranch museum.
From Montana Dateline by Ellis Roberts Parry.
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		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/15/today-in-montana-history-11/</link>
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		<title>Blogroll Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just did some &#8220;pruning&#8221; of the Big Sky Blogroll - removing deleted or inactive blogs.  The general rule on what qualifies as &#8220;inactive&#8221; is usually six months or longer without an entry. Others have been deleted by the owners, and therefore removed from the blogroll. Thanks to Randy at the Billings Free Press for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/06/blogroll-update/</link>
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		<title>VP Cheney In Billings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KULR-8 in Billings is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney was in Billings today on his way to the Big Horn River to fish for trout.
Wyoming native Cheney knows where the best fishing is, Montana!
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		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/04/vp-cheney-in-billings/</link>
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		<title>Highwood Bar &#038; Piano Jack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever enjoyed the best steak in the world at the Highwood Bar, tucked between Belt and Fort Benton, this will come as sad news: Jack Earl &#8220;Piano Jack&#8221; Myllymaki, the man who pounded the keys at the Highwood Bar, has passed away at the too-early age of 57. The Trib did a feature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/03/highwood-bar-piano-jack/</link>
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		<title>Today in Montana History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 1, 1867
The first issue of Montana’s first daily newspaper, the Helena Daily Herald, is published.
August 1, 1868
Utilizing newly enacted homestead laws, David Carpenter files for the first homestead entry in Montana Territory at the Helena office.
August 1, 1903
[Former Billings native] Calamity Jane dies from the effects of years of hard living and alcoholism at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/08/01/today-in-montana-history-10/</link>
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		<title>Plug: Billings Free Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy&#8217;s Billings Free Press continues to improve &#8212; he&#8217;s done a great job with it. He&#8217;s got a great layout/design, fresh content, images, tags, the whole thing. If you live in Billings - or will be visiting - you owe it to yourself to both read the Billings Free Press AND add it to your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2008/07/31/plug-billings-free-press/</link>
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