Crimson Bluffs

Historical marker location:

Townsend, Montana

( Marker is on River Road near Deer Path, on the right when traveling north.)

"...a remarkable bluff of a crimson coloured earth....".

Montana was the first state to elect a woman to Congress, Jeannette Rankin, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916. She was a pacifist and voted against the entry of the United States into both World War I and World War II.