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Did you know that part of Montana almost became the 49th state?
In 1939, some farmers and ranchers in Wyoming got fed up with the federal government and the New Deal, and decided to secede and form a new state.
It would have been called Absaroka, after a local mountain range, and included a chunk of southeastern Montana, southwestern South Dakota, and northern Wyoming.
While the movement didn’t gather much steam, they did make license plates (one is housed in the archives of the University of Wyoming).
