It Seems Lottery Tickets Purchased in Bozeman Hardly Ever Win Huge jackpots or anything else...Bozeman does not appear to be a lucky place to purchase your Montana Lottery tickets. Of course, I buy them all the time. In Bozeman. "The Montana Lottery was created by citizen's referendum in 1986. Since then, it has paid over $694 million in prizes and returned approximately $289 million to the State of Montana." Town Pumps seem to be pretty lucky in terms of selling various winning tickets in the Montana Lottery menu. Good to know. Here's the deal: The Montana Lottery website does a weekly update about winners of prizes over $5,000 across the state.