Editing Livingston, Montana (section)

===Incorporation===
[[File:Teslow Elevator Livingston MT.jpg|thumb|Teslow Grain Elevator, along the railroad tracks]]
On December 21, 1882, Livingston was incorporated and named in honor of Johnston Livingston, pioneer Northern Pacific Railway stockholder, director and friend of Northern Pacific Railroad President Henry Villard. Johnston Livingston was director from 1875 to 1881 and 1884–1887. Crawford Livingston Jr., Johnston's nephew, is more commonly considered the town's namesake. Crawford bought the real estate after the survey and on July 17, 1883, established the First National Bank in the city. Often he spoke of Livingston as "his town," and he apparently enjoyed the publicity of supposedly having a city named for him. But the name Livingston has always stood out in the Northern Pacific official family.<ref>{{cite book |title=Montana Place Names |last=Aarstad |first=Rich |author2=Arguimbau, Ellie |author3=Baumler, Ellen |author4=Porsild, Charlene |author5= Shovers, Brian  |publisher=Montana Historical Society Press|location=Helena, Montana |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-9759196-1-3 |page=157}}</ref>

Livingston is along the Yellowstone River, where it bends from north to east toward [[Billings, Montana|Billings]] and in proximity to [[Interstate 90 in Montana|Interstate 90]]. In July 1806 Captain [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]] of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] camped on the city's present outskirts on the return trip east preparing to descend the Yellowstone River. Clark's party rejoined the Lewis party at the confluence with the [[Missouri River]], near [[Williston, North Dakota]].