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Harmon’s Histories: Missoula Valley fashioned when ‘nature was in a pleasant mood’
The 1900 census placed Missoula’s population at 4,329. A newspaper writer of the day forecast that in 10 years or so, “it would be a city of between 15,000 and 20,000 inhabitants if conditions remain as favorable as they are now.”