Montana State University Billings - Rimrock Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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EASTERN MONTANA COLLEGI BILLINGS, MONTANA HOME OF TIIE YELLOW JACKETS

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ADVENTURE...........every momenl brings challenge lo man's ingenuity, fore thought, and initiative. Eastern Montana began the story when a separated group of the Absarokee entered and claimed the territory from the Bannock tribe. Although a smallpox epidemic greatly reduced its large population, the tribe later came to be known as the Crow Indians. White man brought new excitement with the explorations of the Montana territory by Pierre and Francois de la Verendrye. the Custer Battle, and the birth of Montana as the 41st state of the Union. May of 1882 marked the beginning of the boom which created the Magic City while nearby towns scoffed at its future. Eastern Montana College began with a community's dream to provide for the education of Montana's youth. As a result. Billings has come to see Eastern expand from a two-year normal school into a much larger college facilities. These are tales which have now become a memory: but we can continue lo tell of a great people, of exciting adventure, and of a land's growth through one-hundred years. Each form a part of a treasured heritage. and each recalls Talcs of a Century . A CENTURY