关于蒙大拿州的发展史，请参阅Joseph Howard的Montana：High, Wide, and Handsome（New Haven：Yale University Press, 1943）；K.Ross Toole的Montana：An Uncommon Land（Norman：University of Oklahoma Press, 1959）；K. Ross Toole 的20th-Century Montana：A State of Extremes（Norman：University of Oklahoma Press, 1972）以及Michael Malone、Richard Roeder与William Lang合著的Montana：A History of Two Centuries（修订版）（Seattle：University of Washington Press, 1991）。Russ Lawrence也为比特鲁谷画了一本图册：Montana's Bitterroot Valley（Stevensville, Mont.：Stoneydale Press, 1991）。而Bertha Francis写的The Land of Big Snows（Butte，Mont.：Caxton Printers, 1955）讲述的是大洞盆地的历史。
Thomas Power的Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies：The Search for Value of Place（Washington, D.C.：Island Press, 1996）、Thomas Power与Richard Barrett合著的Post-Cowboy Economics：Pay and Prosperity in the New American West（Washington, D.C.：Island Press, 2001）这两本书探讨了蒙大拿与美国西部山区的经济问题。想了解蒙大拿采矿业的历史和对环境的冲击，可参考以下两本书：David Stiller的Wounding the West：Montana, Mining, and the Environment（Lincoln：University of Nebraska Press, 2000）和Michael Malone的The Battle for Butte：Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906（Helena, Mont.：Montana Historical Society Press, 1981）。Stephen Pyne写的关于森林火灾的书有Fire in America：A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire（Princeton, N.J.：Princeton University Press, 1982）和Year of the Fires：The Story of the Great Fires of 1910（New York：Viking Penguin．2001）。Stephen Arno与Steven Allison-Bunnell写过一本关于美国西部火灾问题的书：Flames in our Forests：Disaster or Renewal？（Washington, D.C.：Island Press, 2002）。Harsh Bais等人在“Allelopathy and exotic plant invasion：from molecules and genes to species interactions”（Science 301：1377-1380（2003））一文中指出，斑点矢车菊会从根部分泌出一种危害本土植物的有毒物质，但不会伤害到其自身。Lynn Jacobs在Waste of the West：Public Lands Ranching（Tucson：Lynn Jacobs, 1991）一书中探讨了蒙大拿在内的美国西部的畜牧业对环境造成的影响。
本章讨论的一些蒙大拿问题，可从下列网站或是该组织的电子邮件得到最新的信息：Bitterroot Land Trust：www.BitterRootLandTrust.org；Bitterroot Valley Chamber of Commerce：www.bvchamber.com；Bitterroot Water Forum：[email protected]；Friends of the Bitterroot：www.FriendsoftheBitterroot.org；Montana Weed Control Association：www．mtweed.org；Plum Creek Timber：www.plumcreek.com；Trout Unlimited's Missoula office：[email protected]；Whirling Disease Foundation：www.whirling-disease.org；Sonoran Institute：www.sonoran.org／programs/si_se；Center for the Rocky Mountain West：www.crmw.org/read；Montana Department of Labor and Industry：https://rad.dli.state.mt.us/pubs/profile.asp；Northwest Income Indicators Project：https://niip.wsu.edu/。