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  Encyclopedia: Missoula, Montana
Missoula is located in a deep valley surrounded by mountains and is cut by three major rivers, the Clark Fork River, the Bitterroot River and the Blackfoot River.
Missoula is home to an expansive indie rock community, headlined by Volumen, The Oblio Joes, and The International Playboys.
Missoula County, Montana The western one-third of the state is primarily mountainous terrain, while the eastern two-third is part of the northern Great Plains.
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 Missoula, Montana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city is the namesake and center of the large, ancient Glacial Lake Missoula, which caused catastrophic floods across the northwest in the last ice age.
Missoula is also home to the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center (http://www.jrpc.org/), a WEEL office (a low-income and welfare advocacy group, Working for Equality and Economic Liberation, [4]), and the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center ([5]).
Missoula and the nearby Blackfoot River are the subject of the autobiographical novel "A River Runs Through It" by Norman McLean, which was brought to the silver screen in 1992 by director Robert Redford.
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 MISSOULA - LoveToKnow Article on MISSOULA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Missoula is about 3200 ft. above sea-level, with Mount Jumbo immediately north, and University Mountain immediately south of the Clark Fork, and the Bitter Root range to the west.
Missoula is the seat of the Sacred Heart academy (for girls), of a Christian Brothers school (for boys), of the Garden City commercial college, and of the state university (founded in 1893, and opened in 1895), which occupies a campus of 40 acres.
Missoula was founded ~fl 1864, and chartered as a city III 1887.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MISSOULA.htm   (240 words)

  
 Missoula, Montana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Missoula is located in a deep valley surrounded by mountains and is cut by three major rivers, the Clark Fork River, the Bitterroot River and the.
Missoula is also home to the (http://www.jrpc.org/), a WEEL office (a low-income and welfare advocacy group, Working for Equality and Economic Liberation, [4] (http://www.weelempowers.org/)), and the ([5] (http://www.gaymontana.com/)).
Missoula is home to the largest of the U.S. Forest Service's smokejumper bases.
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 Missoula Floods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Missoula Floods refer to the catastrophic floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge at the end of the last ice age.
The Missoula Floods are considered to be the primary reason for the agricultural richness of the Willamette Valley.
Bretz, however was not able to explain the source of the huge volume of water and his hypothesis was controversial, partly due to the popularity at that time of the dogma of uniformitarianism in geologic processes.
lakeoswego.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Missoula_Floods   (383 words)

  
 Missoula, MT Travel Guide : The Online Guide to Missoula, Montana
Missoula has the dubious honor of being the only place in Montana that really has any sort of air pollution problems that are manmade, particularly during the winter (smoke from forest fires can plague anyplace in Montana during fire season).
Missoula is located in the Southwest section of Montana, near the border with Idaho.
Missoula, like all too many towns these days, is about 70% strip mall and development, while the remaining downtown is sort of tucked away.
www.bigskyfishing.com /Montana-Info/missoula_mt.shtm   (809 words)

  
 Discovery Map International - Map of Missoula, Montana
Missoula is also home to many dance companies, theatre groups and a recognized symphony orchestra.
Missoula's hospitality and shopping are another reason to make the Garden City an extended stop on your travels.
Missoula is home to a myriad of unique local shops and department stores, terrific restaurants, coffee houses, bookstores and art galleries.
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 Missoula Montana River Guides
The Missoula Area was know to Indians as "Nemissodatakoo," a Flathead Indian term meaning "by or near the cold chilling waters." At the confluence of the Clark Fork, Blackfoot and Bitterroot Rivers, Missoula lives up to its name.
Missoula is also host to numerous festivals, musical ensembles, theatre groups, history centers, dance troupes, visual art centers and one of the West's most distinguished writing communities.
Missoula is also home to the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula and the Art Museum of Missoula.
www.montanariverguides.com /missoula   (609 words)

  
 Brief History
The Washington Territorial Legislature created Missoula County, with the county seat "temporarily located at or near Worden and Co. Trading Post in Hell Gate Ronde." Hellgate was the site of the first settlement in the Missoula valley, located approximately 4 miles west of the current downtown.
A charter for the Town of Missoula was approved by voters and formed as an aldermanic form of government.
Missoula's Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
www.ci.missoula.mt.us /mayor/history.htm   (625 words)

  
 Missoula, Montana...voted #1 best place to live by CNN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Missoula is dubbed the Garden City for its mild winters relative to the rest of Montana.
Missoula is located in an old, glacial lakebed, which is now cut by Clark Fork River.
Missoula is 3 hours south of Glacier National Park and 3-and-a-half hours west of Yellowstone National Park.
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 About Missoula, Montana - Local Hospitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Physicians and other health care providers choose to live in Missoula because of the thriving medical community and the beauty of the region.
The average is one doctor for every 500 persons in the United States, while Missoula County has one doctor for every 285 persons.
Community Medical Center is the center for obstetrics and pediatric care in the greater Missoula area.
www.mindypalmer.com /health.html   (234 words)

  
 Missoula on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Dusty Skivka is an exercise physiologist at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana.
A stuffed Grizzly bear is in display in the airport in Missoula, Montana, in September 2002.
One of the bumper crop of drive-thru espresso shacks that dot the landscape in western Montana.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Missoula.asp   (597 words)

  
 Karl Tyler Chevrolet: About Missoula
Missoula, the largest city in Western Montana, sits along the Clark Fork River and upon an old glacial lakebed.
In the midst of the Rocky Mountains, Missoula is surrounded by millions of acres of National Forest, wilderness and recreation areas.
Missoula serves an area populated by some 100,000 people (20,000 of which involved with the University of Montana) and offers all the amenities of a big city along with extraordinary opportunities for recreational adventure.
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 CVO Website - Glacial Lake Missoula
Glacial Lake Missoula, an immense water body dammed in the upper Clark Fork valley by the Purcell Trench lobe, was the source of floodwater that catastrophically swept across the Channeled Scabland (Bretz, et.al., 1956; see also Baker, 1982).
Lake Missoula shorelines etched across the sharp Fraser-age terminal moraines of alpine glaciers that flowed from mountains on the east side of the lake (Alden, 1953; 197-13) similarly indicate that the alpine-glacial maximum there occurred before or during the higher stands of the lake.
The paucity of sand and silt in the upper Lake Missoula rhythmites suggests that these glaciers receded from the north margin of the lake while the Purcell Trench ice dam was thinning (Waitt, 1980a).
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Glossary/Glaciers/IceSheets/description_lake_missoula.html   (4100 words)

  
 Missoula, Montana - Towns and communities of the Northern Continental Divide Scenic Loop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Known as the "Garden City" for its dense trees and lush green landscape, Missoula is nestled in the heart of the northern Rockies in Western Montana.
Missoula is surrounded by millions of acres of National Forest, wilderness and recreation areas.
Missoula serves as a center for education, medicine, retail and the arts.
www.montanascenicloop.com /missoula.htm   (401 words)

  
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MISSOULA arrived Saipan 28 February; and, after debarking the wounded marines, she sailed for the New Hebrides with Transport Squadron 16 on 5 March.
MISSOULA returned to the Philippines 4 to 11 September and embarked additional occupation troops at Zamboanga and Mindanao.
MISSOULA reached San Francisco 5 March, discharged her passengers, and completed her "Magic Carpet" duty.
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 Missoula Convention & Visitor's Bureau Welcomes You to Missoula
The settlement became known as Missoula, taken from a Salish Indian word meaning "near the cold, chilling waters," and in 1866 became the county seat.
Missoula became a trading center in earnest, distributing produce and grain grown in the agriculturally prosperous Bitterroot Valley.
Missoula's theaters, schools, dance halls, churches and businesses are transformed into showcases for the diverse talents of Montana's artistic, ethnic and cultural communities.
www.missoulacvb.org /culturally.php   (3880 words)

  
 Missoula Floods -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The floods were the result of the periodic sudden rupture of the ice dam on the (Click link for more info and facts about Clark Fork River) Clark Fork River that created (Click link for more info and facts about Glacial Lake Missoula) Glacial Lake Missoula.
Bretz, however was not able to explain the source of the huge volume of water and his hypothesis was controversial, partly due to the popularity at that time of the dogma of (Click link for more info and facts about uniformitarianism) uniformitarianism in geologic processes.
In 1925 another geologist, Joseph Pardee, suggested that the water came from the failure of the glacial dam holding back the waters of Lake Missoula.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/missoula_floods.htm   (270 words)

  
 Main Street Montana Winter 2003 Regional Focus: Missoula County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Missoula, the county seat, is the state's second largest city with a population of 57,053.
Missoula is home to the University of Montana and the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA Championship Grizzly football team.
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, median income for Missoula County households in 1998 was $34,897.
dli.state.mt.us /pub/mswinter03/regional.htm   (655 words)

  
 MISSOULA - Online Information article about MISSOULA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Northern Pacific railway, which has shops here and of which Missoula is a See also:
Missoula is the seat of the Sacred See also:
Missoula was founded in 1864, and chartered as a city in 1887.
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 Glacial Lake Missoula and the Ice Age Floods
The story of Glacial Lake Missoula is the story of one of the largest floods on earth - and it all started right here in Missoula.We're working to bring this story to light: this page is your guide to resources and upcoming events available through the Montana Natural History Center.
The Center has displays that include a short description of the lakes and the floods; examples of sedimentary rock; short videos and books on the topic (that can be used at the Center, checked out, or purchased); and displays of fossils and other rocks from the region.
An educational trunk about the Missoula aquifer is pertinent when discussing our geologic history and a new truck is ready for use in schools.
www.glaciallakemissoula.org /glm_mnhc.html   (259 words)

  
 Welcome to Missoula!
The Missoula area encompasses the Lewis and Clark experience, the best of the Old West and cultural activities you would expect to find only in a much larger city.
Missoula is as varied as the five valleys that lead into it.
Missoula’s hotels, restaurants, and convention facilities, combined with attractions and events for leisure activities, make meeting planning a pleasure.
montanameetings.com /missoula.htm   (384 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Missoula, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
42,918), seat of Missoula co., W Mont., on the Clark Fork of the Columbia River; inc. 1889.
In the midst of five watered valleys, large forests, and an extensive dairy and cattle area, Missoula is a commercial center with lumber and paper, printing and publishing, food, chemicals, construction materials, furniture, and fabricated metal products industries, but the Univ. of Montana is the largest employer.
Hell Gate town was founded nearby in 1860 and moved to the Missoula site six years later.
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 Missoula Websites Recreation
Missoula is a place to recreate, to get outdoors and have fun.
Headquartered in Missoula, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is working to conserve 2 million acres of Elk Habitat.
The Center for the Rocky Mountain West is a regional studies and public policy center at The University of Montana in Missoula.
missoula.ws /dir.html?category_id=558   (454 words)

  
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Fort Missoula was established in 1877 as a frontier military post.
The Museum recognizes as special its exploration in the area of the preservation of Fort Missoula's institutional history, the development of the interwar(1918-41) U.S. Army, and the influence of the modern U.S. military establishment upon the growth of the Pacific Northwest.
Missoula, Montana has one of the nation's highest per capita populations of service retirees.
www.nrhc.org /rmmmh/rmmmh.htm   (586 words)

  
 Missoula News
Missoula County Commissioners approved a new subdivision Wednesday after several hours of discussion that included complaints from neighbors, assurances from the developer, and trimming three lots to appease...
MISSOULA This week marks the fourth anniversary of the first Montana soldier to die in the war on terrorism.
While the cleanup and restoration project at the dam near Missoula is cause to celebrate, professor of environmental studies Robin Saha says there's more to the story that said the mining waste would simply be "railed away.
www.topix.net /city/missoula-mt   (1157 words)

  
 NBCMontana.com
Missoula Police said they're getting close to figuring out who's responsible for a brutal attack this weekend in downtown Missoula.
Early this morning Missoula Police tracked down a couple responsible for a traveling meth lab, pulling them over while they were trying to move that lab through town.
A brutal attack on a Missoula street this weekend, and the victims say it may have been motivated by homophobia.
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