Montana the land of the “Big Sky”
I have driven thru Montana a couple times but never spent much time there. It is beautiful country.

Gaming has been off and on since the first Montana settlers got there.
Pre-1937 it was all technically illegal (though rarely enforced).
1937-1950, gaming was okay as long as it was licensed locally.
1950-72, it was illegal.
1973, gaming was legalized state-wide (only poker, pan, and live keno)

Debby Whole a friend and my swing shift manager on the poker cruises spent 2 months driving Montana and hunting for chips. She haunted flea markets, bars, and where ever she could find chips and information on them. She came home with a lot of new Montana chips. She self published a book on them in 2002, with a lot of new info.
She owned Murphy’s card room in Elk Grove, Ca in 1993.

Three from Montana.

Mikes Club
Anaconda, MT

Chip originally said Mikes Reno Club. Reno scratched off by new owner in 1950's Closed 70's
I have 4 colors.

Kennedys Bar
Harlem, MT
1947

Walkers Café
Butte & Gardner, MT
Vincent T Quinlan - 120 W. Port St-Open 1901-40's-Also used at Gardner Bar in Gardner MT per Allan “Doc” Meyers.