| | Idaho-Montana Boundary Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The line Congress chose was mainly the Bitterroot range and, farther south, the Continental Divide. |
 | | In any event, the legend has it that the boundary surveyors made a truly colossal error in following the Bitterroots instead of the Continental Divide as they allegedly were supposed to--and that as a result Idaho lost Missoula, Butte, and all the rest of Montana which is west of the Rockies. |
 | | Going the way they did, from north to south, they could not possibly have mistaken the Bitterroots for the Continental Divide where the two ranges come together north of Salmon; they already were coming south along the Bitterroot range before they reached the Continental Divide. |
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