These Paradise Valley real estate in Montana have sat on bucolic Peterson Meadow for over 125 years. While in their presence, one can appreciate the daily lives of the hardy frontiersmen and settlers who opened up the West. Southwest Montana real estate where members can connect with this land’s rich heritage. Long before south-central Montana was acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, rural Montana real estate was regarded as sacred, neutral territory by the native Bannock, Blackfoot, Crow, Montana real estate for sale, Flathead and Shoshone tribes. Called "The Valley of Flowers," it was their green building. Reports by Lewis and Clark after their historic trek across the Montana Montana land for saleattracted the adventurous to Bozeman, Montana real estate. Trappers, traders Montana fly fishing were the first to arrive. After Montana land in the 1880's came the settlers. The founding of Livingston at the great bend of the Yellowstone River was the direct result of building the Big Sky real estate. Benson's Landing, a ferry and trading post three miles below the Livingston, Montana real estate
, was to be the original site where a supply store would be established. But on July 14, 1882, Joseph J. McBride arrived to survey a site for the supply store of Bruns and Kruntz, contractors. He chose a place nearer the great bend and called it Clark City in honor of Herman Clark, the principal contractor for the Northern Pacific in the region west of the Missouri River. 
When the Northern Pacific builders reached this point, Clark City boasted a population of 500 with six general stores, two hotels and 44 other businesses, 30 of which were saloons. Railroad officials, however, surveyed the area and decided the city should be located a short distance to the north. The Livingston Post Office was established in 1882.