Montrose, Nebraska

[1] The townsite is located near the intersection of the Powder River Trail and the Cheyenne & Black Hills Stage Road [2] and is now a part of the Oglala National Grassland.

During the Battle of Warbonnet Creek on July 17, 1876, Buffalo Bill Cody shot, killed, and scalped a Cheyenne warrior near the townsite-to-be, which he later often celebrated during his Wild West shows in a reenactment he entitled "The Red Right Hand, or, Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer".

[2] Montrose was established in 1887 on a ford across Hat Creek by immigrants from Austria, Germany, and Luxembourg.

[2] In 1890, fear of the Ghost Dance cult led the settlers to construct a fortified bunker.

[2] Omaha Bishop Richard Scannell confirmed 46 Catholics at the church in June 1899.