Instructions: Type the correct word or words in the blanks to complete the facts about Montana.   If you type a space after your answer, it will look like it is correct, but it will be marked wrong.  Use the tab key to move from space to space.

1. The capital of Montana is ⁽¹⁾.
   
   
2. Montana's official nickname is The ⁽²⁾, but everyone knows it as Big Sky Country.
   
   
3. Montana doesn't have a lot of icons or folk heroes, but the town of Butte is home to a celebration called Knievel Days, in honor of the legendary homegrown ⁽³⁾, Evil Knievel.  The celebration features three days of death-defying motorcycle stunts.
   
   
4. Montana is one of North America's most active locations for ⁽⁴⁾ sightings.  The first sighting that appeared on motion picture film occurred in Great Falls, Montana in August of 1950 and engendered the controversy of the 50s and 60s.
   
   
5. Although the state derives its name from the Spanish word for mountainous, sixty percent of Montana is covered by The ⁽⁵⁾.
   
   
6. When gold was discovered in the 1860s, ⁽⁶⁾ ranchers saw a golden opportunity because the vast grasslands of Montana territory were public domain.
   
   
7. The cattle industry has gone high-tech.  The Northern Livestock Video ⁽⁷⁾ has been a boon to cattle buyers and sellers and is broadcast via satellite.
   
   
8. The Montana plains, where today cattle roam, were once home to ⁽¹²⁾, and the state has provided a treasure trove of fossils.  Paleontolgist Jack Horner says, "we have their babies; we have their eggs; we have juveniles; we have adults.  And he expects to get DNA and make one.
   
   
9. Bountiful food and game made this territory the original land for the Cheyenne, Crow, and several other native tribes.  Encroachment by white ⁽⁹⁾ and the troops that defended them led to one of the most significant battles of the American West.
   
   
10. The Battle of Little Big Horn, remembered as Custer's ⁽¹⁰⁾ Stand, was won by the Indians, but the reprisals were swift and harsh.
    
    
11. The military became extremely agressive, and they started attacking the Indian tribes with a lot more vigor than they had before, forcing them back on the ⁽¹¹⁾.