關於蒙大拿州的發展史，請參閱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與William Lang合著的Montana：A History of Two Centuries（修訂版）（Seattle：University of Washington Press, 1991）。Russ Lawrence也為比特魯谷畫了一本圖冊：Montana's Bitterroot Valley（Stevensville, Mont.：Stoneydale Press, 1991）。而Bertha Francis寫的The Land of Big Snows（Butte，Mont.：Caxton Printers, 1955）講述的是大洞盆地的歷史。
Thomas Power的Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies：The Search for Value of Place（Washington, D.C.：Island Press, 1996）、Thomas Power與Richard Barrett合著的Post-Cowboy Economics：Pay and Prosperity in the New American West（Washington, D.C.：Island Press, 2001）這兩本書探討了蒙大拿與美國西部山區的經濟問題。想瞭解蒙大拿採礦業的歷史和對環境的衝擊，可參考以下兩本書：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寫的關於森林火災的書有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與Steven Allison-Bunnell寫過一本關於美國西部火災問題的書：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，斑點矢車菊會從根部分泌出一種危害本土植物的有毒物質，但不會傷害到其自身。Lynn Jacobs在Waste of the West：Public Lands Ranching（Tucson：Lynn Jacobs, 1991）一書中探討了蒙大拿在內的美國西部的畜牧業對環境造成的影響。
本章討論的一些蒙大拿問題，可從下列網站或是該組織的電子郵件得到最新的信息：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/。