The fourth oldest fish hatchery in the United States, the facility ceased to be primarily a hatchery in and became the U. The Center receives approximately visitors a year observing biologists working on diet testing, feed manufacturing technology, fish diseases, brood stock development and improvement of water quality. Montana State University - Bozeman was established in as the state's land-grant college, then named the Agricultural College of the State of Montana.
Bozeman receives a steady influx of new residents and visitors in part due to its plentiful recreational activities such as fly fishing, hiking, whitewater kayaking, and mountain climbing. Additionally, Bozeman is a gateway community through which visitors pass on the way to Yellowstone National Park and its abundant wildlife and thermal features. Many who followed this trail for gold returned to the valley to take up farming and business.
So began the town of Bozeman in The town grew slowly, reaching a population of 3, by The Northern Pacific Railroad had completed its line through the town in , and Montana Agricultural College held its first classes in The gender makeup of the city was As of the census of , there were 27, people, 10, households, and 5, families residing in the city.
The population density was 2, There were 11, housing units at an average density of Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. There were 10, households out of which In the city, the population was spread out with The median age was 25 years. For every females there were For every females age 18 and over, there were About 9. Films shot in the nearby Paradise Valley south of Livingston and Big Timber areas, such as The Horse Whisperer and Rancho Deluxe also headquartered out of Bozeman due to its status as the largest community in the local trade area.
In popular music, the members of the noise rock group Steel Pole Bath Tub are originally from Bozeman, and wrote a song titled "Bozeman" on their third album, The Miracle of Sound in Motion. The s hard rock band Vixen also featured a former Bozeman resident, Janet Gardner, as lead singer. Literary references include the Bozeman area and real-life Bozeman artists Bob and Gennie DeWeese as a key setting in Robert Pirsig's novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; the narrator was a professor teaching English composition while developing his philosophical ideas, reflecting the author's own history — Pirsig himself taught at Montana State.
John Steinbeck passed through Bozeman via the former U. Route 10 as well as venturing into Yellowstone National Park, and recounted his impressions of Montana in Travels with Charley. Bozeman has been referenced in the science fiction franchise Star Trek , most likely due to the influence of writer Brannon Braga, a native of Bozeman. Per the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Desert Crossing", the Bozeman area was the fictional site of Earth's first contact with an alien species the Vulcans on April 5, in the film Star Trek: First Contact , though the movie was not filmed in Montana.
On March 5, , the city of Bozeman made national news when an early morning explosion destroyed three buildings in the historic downtown area. Several other buildings were damaged and one person was killed. The blast occurred at about a. Investigators found the cause of the explosion to be a leak in a gas line that led to a business that was destroyed in the blast. The gas line was more than 70 years old.
Business owners and local residents later filed major lawsuits against Northwestern Energy , the company in charge of the gas line. The suits claimed negligence for the gas leak that led to the blast. As of December , most of the lawsuits against the energy company were settled. In June of the same year, Bozeman was once again in the national news when it was reported that the city government was requesting job applicants provide their user names and passwords to social networking sites.
A passage from the city's application form said, "Please list any and all current personal or business Web sites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube. After the initial news story aired, the Bozeman City Commissioner received e-mails and phone calls expressing indignation about the practice from across the nation.
So too did naturalists and explorers. Some strikes occurred as early as the 's, eventually giving rise to communities like Bannack, Virginia City, and even Helena. As the mining population grew, so too did the demand for supplies and foodstuffs. Farmers began migrating to the Gallatin Valley to fill that need. Gallatin City was established in , and in the migration into the southern half of the valley began with the arrival of two wagon trains, one led by Jim Bridger and the other by John Bozeman.
So he instead decided to become a promoter. The route he used followed a series of Indian trails across the Big Horn Basin, and it eventually became known as the Bozeman Trail. That trail launched a war with the Sioux and Cheyenne, and so it soon became known as the "Bloody Bozeman. Days later, the claims association named the new community in his honor.
But Bozeman soon wore on people's nerves.
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