Location ID: #595
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Quartz mines in the vicinity of Philipsburg were first discovered in 1865 by Hector Horton. Word of his discoveries got out and a rush to the area occurred the following year. By June of 1866, claims had been staked on many of the important lodes of ...
The Frontier House Museum
Location ID: #1584
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Construction layers of this original homestead tell much of Nevada City’s ‘boom and bust’ history. In 1864, miner Frank Finney and his bride, Mary, moved into a cabin on this property that had been constructed the previous year. The cabin forms the ...
Location ID: #10010813
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Named as a combination of Richard A. Harlow's wife, Maud, and their last name, Maudlow began as a railroad town on the Montana Railway, on a line that began north of Three Forks at Lombard and headed northeast of Maudlow toward Lewistown. The town ...
Location ID: #10104290
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The area where Lincoln now stands was well know to travelers. The fabled Cokalihishkit "River of the road to the buffalo" was followed by the Nez Pierce, Salish and other tribes to the buffalo grounds of the Montana plains. Capt. Meriwether Lewis ...
Location ID: #522
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The cavalry set camp at the mouth of the Tongue River on the Yellowstone after the 1876 campaign of "rounding up hostile Indians." Their commanding officer was Colonel Nelson A. Miles and this camp was the beginning of Miles City. It soon became a ...
Location ID: #411
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Jackson is on the Big Hole River twenty miles from Idaho by snowshoe and forty-five by automobile. Jackson lies on the valley floor near the headwaters of the Big Hole River. The valley is considered by many to be the finest outdoor recreation area ...
Location ID: #1591
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Jean Batiste Laurin settled on the Ruby River in 1863 and operated a general store at a location he named Cicero. The post office that opened in 1874 was named Laurin for this early settler. One resident decided Mr. Laurin looking like "a little ...
Garnet Ghost Town
Location ID: #10128147
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The area's first placer-gold discovery took place near Garnet in 1865, but the rush that created the town did not start until 1895. Originally named Mitchell, for stamp mill manager A. H. Mitchell, the boom-town's name changed in 1897 to Garnet, ...
Location ID: #10129092
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Comet is a ghost town located about twenty miles (32 kilometers) south-southwest of Helena, Montana, United States. It is reached by following High Ore Road north from Interstate 15. The remains of the town cover about thirty-five acres and consist ...
Location ID: #10146422
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Location ID: #243
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Backcountry roads settle you into a 19th century mining landscape before you reach historic Fraternity Hall and Gillian Hall nestled within the privately owned town of Elkhorn.
Enjoy Bicycling, heritage, hiking, history, photography and wildlife ...
Location ID: #88
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Boulder is on the north bank of the Boulder River between Butte and Helena, slightly east of the Continental Divide, at the intersection of Interstate 15 and Montana Highway 69. The population was 1,207 at the 2020 census.
Established in the ...
Location ID: #10159931
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Pete Daly built a log roadhouse at this site in 1863. Unlike most roadhouses of the time, which provided meals, companionship and a place to stay for weary travelers, Daly’s was allegedly a hangout for Montana’s most notorious criminal gang – the ...
Location ID: #635
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It may be called a city, but the only thing you'll find it populated with are bulbous rock formations. A local undeveloped secret, sandstone formations or hoodoos, provide beautiful views and hours of uninterrupted exploration. One point overlooks ...
Location ID: #914
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Lonesome Dove Ranch
Location ID: #10095492
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Location ID: #10128553
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Location ID: #465
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Originally occupied by Native Americans for thousands of years, this special place along the Absaroka Mountains was named after the Crow Indian Nation. Captain William Clark’s expedition brought some of the first white men to travel through this ...
Location ID: #10176939
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Our western backlot is styled after a late 1800s gold rush town that uses five fully functional interior/exterior sets with some support buildings and facades to create the look of 28 unique structures set amongst rolling hills, highlighted by the ...
Location ID: #789
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Virginia City was born with the discovery of gold in Alder Gulch in 1863. A boom town of the post Civil War era, Virginia City served as the Montana Territorial Capital for 10 years, until the gold ran out. Just a mile away lies Nevada City, a ...
Location ID: #1586
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Nevada City was a mining ghost town until the Bovey family restored it between 1945 and 1978. The entire town of Nevada City is a historical museum. Today it is a famous tourist attraction with many original log buildings and an outstanding ...
Location ID: #1581
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Nevada City was a mining ghost town until the Bovey family restored it between 1945 and 1978. The entire town of Nevada City is a historical museum. Today it is a famous tourist attraction with many original log buildings and an outstanding ...
Location ID: #1580
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Nevada City was a mining ghost town until the Bovey family restored it between 1945 and 1978. The entire town of Nevada City is a historical museum. Today it is a famous tourist attraction with many original log buildings and an outstanding ...
Location ID: #864
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Nevada City was a mining ghost town until the Bovey family restored it between 1945 and 1978. The entire town of Nevada City is a historical museum. Today it is a famous tourist attraction with many original log buildings and an outstanding ...