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Is The TV Show “Yellowstone’’ the Real Montana?

What’s Real and What’s Fake? Inquiring Minds Want To Know

Tom Egelhoff
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMay 7, 2022

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I moved to Bozeman, Montana in 1993. At that time Bozeman was about 12,000. Not big not small.

Kissing the smog layer of San Diego goodbye for the clean clear Big Skies of Montana.

Today the Bozeman population is over 50,000. Median homes in the Gallatin Valley are priced right at $1 million. Surrounding cities three quarter to half that.

Montana has money and lots of it.

Locals will tell you the growth is due to all the California, New York, and Illinois people moving here to escape those hellholes.

The truth is most people moving to Bozeman have moved from other parts of Montana and surrounding states.

The Dutton Ranch and The Size of Montana Ranches

If the size does matter, then Montana is where you want to be.

Montana is the fourth largest state in the nation.

To put land size in perspective when talking about the size of Montana ranches you need to know the concept of the size of an acre of land.

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Tom Egelhoff
ILLUMINATION

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