Editing Musselshell County, Montana (section)

==History==
Musselshell County was created in 1911 by Montana Governor [[Edwin L. Norris]]. The area was taken from [[Fergus County, Montana|Fergus]], [[Yellowstone County, Montana|Yellowstone]], and [[Meagher County, Montana|Meagher]] counties. It was named for the [[Musselshell River]] which runs southwest–northeast through the county. That river had been thus named in 1805 by the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]], due to the abundance of [[freshwater mussel]]s found along its banks. In 1915, a western portion of the county was partitioned off to form [[Golden Valley County, Montana|Golden Valley County]], giving Musselshell County its present boundaries.

The county's northwestern area is rolling grasslands, which slope southeastward to the Musselshell River and the forested [[Bull Mountains]] in the southeast. The county has abundant natural resources of coal deposits, subterranean oil, and timbered slopes.<ref name=about/>