Bannack,Montanawas born in 1862 when gold was found along Grasshopper Creek. Like other gold rushes, miners rushed to the settlement in search of their fortunes and before long the hills around Bannack were filled with as many as 10,000 miners. With that many men during the era of the rou...
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> Montana Ghost Towns Pictures Next 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Welcome to Ghost Town Gallery This is our collection of more than 2000 pictures from 180 Ghost Towns, mining camps and historic places in the United States. Here you find photos of western towns, somecompletely abandoned, othersstill...
Virginia City is now one of the most preserved “ghost towns” in theAmerican West, thanks to the efforts of Charles and Sue Bovey. Mr. Bovey, aMontanarancher and state legislator, and his wife, Sue, first visited Virginia City in 1944. Though suffering from neglect and weather, the town...
Route 66 Ghost TownsThe Sadness of Old BuildingsStay Out of That Old Mine!The past belongs to the future… but only the present can preserve it. — Unknown Elkhorn, Montana Buildings by Kathy Alexander.THIS OLD TOWNI was born here. In a long-ago land of shadows and muted sounds I ...
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Nearby ghost towns Adventure, UT Duncan's Retreat, UT Grafton, UT 09 Bannack Beaverhead County, Montana Founded in 1862, Bannack was briefly the capital of Montana. Up to 10,000 people lived in the surrounding area, hoping to make their fortune in gold, but by 1870 all the easy-to-reach...
Reported in The New York Times / October 28, 1886 FORT KEOGH, Montana, Oct. 27. -- The following additional particulars regarding the late fight of the Crow Reservation between a party of Crow and Sioux Indians, in which five of the Indians were killed and scalped, have just been reported...
In 1876,a man named Seth Bullockarrived in Deadwood, SD, from Montana, and the little city would never be the same. He opened a hardware store,and really brought the place to life with business and hospitality. Still, he had a foreboding presence, and he was both respected and feared by...