Montana was part of Idaho Territory in 1863, and in 1864 the Idaho Territorial Legislature agreed to a separate Montana Territory but wanted the boundary to follow the Continental Divide. When the separation bill went to Congress, James Ashley of the House Committee on Territories and Idaho Territorial Judge Sydney Edgerton placed the border along the Bitterroot Mountains. The survey then followed its current jagged line from Yellowstone Park west and north until about 60 miles from Canada, where Ashley and Edgerton decided the boundary was veering too far west and ran it straight north to Canada, creating the one flat section of Montana’s western boundary. The Idaho Legislature protested the proposed border and petitioned Congress to restore the “stolen” lands, but without success. If the boundary had followed the Continental Divide, the University of Montana at Missoula would have been in Idaho while Montana State at Bozeman would have remained in Montana, deepening the divide reflected in the state’s major football rivalry. That annual contest between the University of Montana Grizzlies and Montana State University Bobcats, known as the Brawl of the Wild, is a statewide event whose passion binds and divides families, neighbors, and communities, and its rivalry is separated by the Continental Divide. The first game was played in 1897 in Missoula, and the teams played twice in one season seven times between 1898 and 1913. The contest moved to Butte in 1926, where the teams met through 1950 and played for the Copper Bowl from 1946 to 1950, before the annual game moved to campus sites in Bozeman and Missoula beginning in 1951. Beginning in 2001, the teams started playing for the Great Divide Trophy, created to resemble Bear Mountain on the Continental Divide; the winning team keeps the traveling trophy on its campus for the following year, and the team with the most wins during the 21st century will keep it permanently after the 2100 game. Bear Mountain and the trophy are landmarks for Montanans, and the original painting by Dave Samuelson that was used to create the trophy hangs in the Montana Historical Society.