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Liberty County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of  2000, the population was 2,158. Its county seat is Chester.[1] It was  established in 1920.

Adjacent Counties
Toole  County, Montana - west    Pondera County, Montana - southwest-

Chouteau County, Montana - south  Hill  County, Montana - east

Town  Chester  Census-designated  place   Joplin    Other  communities   Lothair   

Whitlash

Whitlash is an  unincorporated community in northwestern Liberty County, Montana, United States,  about five miles south of the province of Alberta across the Canadian  border.

Whitlash has a post office and an elementary school that provides  educational services in grades prekindergarten through 8. The community is  accessible only by unpaved road. The Whitlash Border Crossing is about five  miles to the north.

Whitlash is located near the East Butte of the Sweet  Grass Hills which are major historic and physical landmarks of the Great Plains.  Sacred to the American Indians, "The Hills" served as hunting grounds,  battlegrounds, spiritual grounds, and of course were used for navigational  purposes as well.

Fort  Assinniboine - Located six miles south west of Havre on Highway 87    Fort Assinniboine was one of the largest frontier Military Posts ever  constructed in the United States.
 
 Established in 1879, the post had  104 buildings and was contained within a 40 mile long by 15 mile wide military  reservation.
 Considered the most strategic post in the Northwest,  the  primary mission of the Fort's garrison was to prevent attacks from some

  5,000 Lakota Sioux led by Sitting Bull and other chiefs who had fled  to the safety of Canada after the "Battle of the Little Big Horn".
 Liberty County is located in north-central Montana, and Chester serves as the   County Seat.  The Continental Divide passes within just 150 miles of the  community with the local Sweetgrass Hills reaching to nearly 7,000  feet.

97% of Liberty  County’s economy is supported by agriculture.  Rich Soil provides  nourishment for vast fields of wheat and barley, and miles of grazing for cattle  both in the Sweetgrass Hills and on the plains.  Average farm size in Liberty  County is about 3,140 acres.
In July 1806 Meriwether Lewis and his party were  the first recorded white men in the area, Captain Lewis writes of his scrimmage  with a tribe of Indians (probably Piegans or Blackfeet) along the Marias  river.

Following the Lewis and Clark Expedition, fur trappers, hardy  adventuers, and a few prospectors came, and in the late 1880s large cattle and  sheep ranches were established.

Between 1910 an 1918 two homestead acts  brought many settlers’shacks to the area. On virtually every quarter or  half-section people swarmed into the newly opened territory to prove-up on their  acres. Many who came went broke, perished in drought or froze in long, cold  winters.  Others stuck out the hardships and formed the basis for the modern  farming economy prevalent in this area.. 
 
Liberty County was created  from sections of Chouteau and Hill counties in 1919 when 72% of the voters in  the area voted for the proposition. At this same election Chester was chosen as  the county seat. Liberty County became the first county formed after World War  1.

Liberty County, in north-central Montana, covers 1458 square  miles.Chester the county seat is 90 miles north of Great Falls, 114 miles east  of East Glacier, 60 miles west of Havre, and 50 miles from the Canadian  border.

Most of the county is characterized by rolling prairies, gullies  and coulees of the three major streams,

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