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Growing up in Cut Bank, Montana, Patti Jo Ruegamer would spend most summer days going to the farm with her mother and father in Meriwether, about 25 miles west.
Counties in Montana received some of the most radiation in the U.S. from nuclear testing. Meagher County is said to have received the most.
Of the top 25 counties in the United States that received the most radioactive byproduct from weapons tests in Nevada, 15 were in Montana.