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Helena (pronounced HEL'-in-nah) came to life overnight as a gold-rush boomtown in 1864 and still retains an Old West flavor that is now mixed with the politics, commerce, arts, culture and sports of any modern city. But the city wears its mining history proudly.
 Helena became the territorial capital in 1875 and the state capital in 1894. For 90 days in odd-numbered years the 150 members of the Montana Legislature create a housing shortage, and politics is thick in the city year-round. The capital lies midway between Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, at the junction of Interstate 15 and U.S. 12 and 278, on the east face of the Rocky Mountains
 Main Street in the downtown business district takes its name, Last Chance Gulch, from the four prospectors who discovered gold there in 1864. The "Four Georgians" supposedly decided the valley was their last chance; if they didn't hit gold here, they would go home, their grubstake exhausted. Instead, they hit big, and started one of the West's big gold rushes.
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 - The Helena Independent Record Periodical!
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