Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad. 1907. Gallatin County Ole K. Bervin from Hardanger is the first Norwegian the author knows of in this county. He settled at Bozeman in 1891. Before he came to Gallatin County, he lived in the eastern part of the State, to which he came in 1881 and where he was in all likelihood also the first Norwegian. He came up the Missouri River from South Dakota by steamboat at that time because the Northern Pacific Railroad was still under construction. Bervin's source of income in the latter area was in buffalo hunting. There were actually many buffalo. He lived in the so-called Bad Lands. He was surrounded by the Sioux Indians but through a careful course of action he avoided unpleasantness with them. But he could never feel secure. Now there are many settlers and cattle ranchers those places also. In Gallatin County there is one congregation belonging to The Norwegian Synod.