Excerpted from Boulder: Its Friends and Neighbors, written by Boulder’s only female mayor, Olive Hagadone, and originally published serially in The Monitor in 1985-86.
In the election of 1892, of even more interest than the candidates was the question of the location of the permanent capitol of the State of Montana.
This area had been served by many capitols. It became part of the Louisiana Territory in 1699. The first capitol was Biloxi, Mississippi, but in 1725 the capitol of the territory became New Orleans. Subsequent seats of government for this territory were Vincennes, St. Louis, Shampeg City and Salem, Oregon, the latter in 1853. Bellevue, Nebraska territory, was the capital in 1854; Omaha in 1855, and Yankton, Dakota territory, in 1861.
