Editing Malta, Montana (section)

==History==
After [[James J. Hill|James Hill]] and his partners built the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba railway (which in 1890 became the [[Great Northern Railway (US)|Great Northern Railway]]) across Montana's "High Line" in 1887,<ref>{{cite book |last=Malone |first=Michael P. |author2=Richard B. Roeder |title= Montana: A History of Two Centuries, page 135 |year=1976 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=0-295-95520-1 |pages=352}}</ref> Malta evolved from [[rail siding]] number 54. What came to be [[Saco, Montana|Saco]], Montana, to the east and [[Dodson, Montana|Dodson]], Montana, to the west grew from other nearby sidings. A post office was established in Malta in 1890. Its name is said to have been determined by a spin of the globe by a Great Northern official whose finger came to rest on the island of [[Malta]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.malta-montana.com/ |title=Malta Montana Information<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122004526/http://www.malta-montana.com/ |archive-date=2013-01-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On July 3, 1901, Kid Curry ([[Harvey Logan]]), as part of [[Butch Cassidy]]'s Wild Bunch, robbed a train just west of Malta, near Wagner, Montana,<ref>[http://www.prospector-utah.com/curry.htm Kid Curry<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108154643/http://www.prospector-utah.com/curry.htm |date=2007-11-08 }}</ref> making off with about $40,000.<ref>Aarstad, Rich, Ellie Arguimbau, Ellen Baumler, Charlene Porsild, and Brian Shovers. [http://mhs.mt.gov/pub/press/reference.asp#PlaceNames Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008060633/http://mhs.mt.gov/pub/press/reference.asp |date=2009-10-08 }}. Montana Historical Society Press.</ref>

One of the best preserved dinosaurs ever discovered and one of only four that were fossilized is a 77-million-year-old ''[[Brachylophosaurus]]'' nicknamed Leonardo, unearthed north of Malta in 2000.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20021012070200/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1010_021010_dinomummy.html "Mummified" Dinosaur Discovered In Montana<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20021019/fob2.asp Dear Mummy: Rare fossil reveals common dinosaur's soft tissue: Science News Online, Oct. 19, 2002<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Leonardo,<ref>[http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/brachleo.htm Montana Leonardo dinosaur discovery: Brachylophosaurus - Judith River Dinosaur Institute<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518045114/http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/brachleo.htm |date=2008-05-18 }}</ref> together with brachylophosaurs Elvis<ref>[http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/brach.htm Brachylophosaurus Dinosaur discovery: Judith River Dinosaur Institute<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908051013/http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/brach.htm |date=2008-09-08 }}</ref> (1994), Roberta<ref>[http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/roberta.htm Brachylophosaurus Dinosaur - Roberta discovery: Judith River Dinosaur Institute<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908100426/http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/roberta.htm |date=2007-09-08 }}</ref> (2003) and Peanut<ref>[http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/peanut.htm Brachylophosaurus Dinosaur - Peanut discovery: Judith River Dinosaur Institute<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810133331/http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/peanut.htm |date=2007-08-10 }}</ref> (2002), is on display at The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum.