Army, who tried to turn Story back to protect the drive from hostile Indians, Story's cattle formed one of the earliest significant herds in Montana's cattle industry. Story braved the hostile Bozeman Trail to successfully drive some 1,000 head of longhorn cattle into Paradise Valley just east of Bozeman. In 1866, Nelson Story, a successful Virginia City, Montana, gold miner originally from Ohio, entered the cattle business. John Bozeman, with Daniel Rouse and William Beall, platted the town in August 1864, stating "standing right in the gate of the mountains ready to swallow up all tenderfeet that would reach the territory from the east, with their golden fleeces to be taken care of." Red Cloud's War closed the Bozeman Trail in 1868, but the town's fertile land still attracted permanent settlers. In 1863 John Bozeman, along with a partner named John Jacobs, opened the Bozeman Trail, a new northern trail off the Oregon Trail leading to the mining town of Virginia City through the Gallatin Valley and the future location of the city of Bozeman. The journal entries from Clark's party briefly describe the future city's location. The party camped 3 miles (4.8 km) east of what is now Bozeman, at the mouth of Kelly Canyon. William Clark visited the area in July 1806 as he traveled east from Three Forks along the Gallatin River. The local newspaper is the Bozeman Daily Chronicle the city is served by Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport. īozeman is home to Montana State University. Bozeman was elected an All-America City in 2001 by the National Civic League. The town became incorporated in April 1883 with a city council form of government, and in January 1922 transitioned to its current city manager/ city commission form of government. Bozeman, who established the Bozeman Trail and was a founder of the town in August 1864. It is the largest micropolitan statistical area in Montana, the fastest growing micropolitan statistical area in the United States in 2018, 20, as well as the third-largest of all Montana's statistical areas. Due to the fast growth rate Bozeman is expected to be upgraded to Montana's fourth metropolitan area. It is the principal city of the Bozeman, MT Micropolitan Statistical Area, consisting of all of Gallatin County with a population of 118,960. Located in southwest Montana, the 2020 census put Bozeman's population at 53,293, making it the fourth-largest city in Montana.
Bozeman is a city and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States.