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Lodge Grass

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A view from 1939:

LODGE GRASS, (3,056 alt, 373 pop.), is a trade town of the ranchers whose herds graze on the rich grass-covered uplands that were formerly covered with buffalo. Before the white man came, the Crow made their summer hunting camps here, and knew the place by a name that probably meant "rich grass," but was sometimes interpreted as "greasy grass." The Crow words for "lodge" and "grease" were so similar that by further misinterpretation this place became Lodge Grass.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.