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Forgotten Ghost Cities of Montana Pioneers and Camps
A vivid survey of Montana ghost towns and vanished camps led by Bannack Butte Diamond City Carroll Coulson and McCarthyville. It recalls frontier life trading posts railroad booms and the brutal realities of mining culture with named towns and figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Montana Society of Pioneers
Old Fort Benton
Redman
Geneva
Diamond City
Coulson
Red Mountain City
Nellie Paget
Nellie
Henry Plummer
Beaverhead County
Sons and Daughters of the Revolution
Bannack
Dillon
Hope
Helena
Montana City
Treasure State
Last Chance Gulch
Rocky Mountain
Dame Fortune
Nature
Butte Butte
Butte
John Kern
Highland City
Silver Bow Creek
Silver Bow
Beastly Butler
Virginia City
Confederate Gulch
Montana Bar
Diamond
Meagher County
Carroll
Missouri
Diamond R Company
Mississippi River
Pacific Coast
Fort Benton
Diamond R
Matt Carroll
E. G. Maclay
George Steele
Charles A. Broadwater
Utah & Pacific
Northern Pacific
Billings
Yellowstone River
Clark’s Fork
A. H. Yerkes
Yerkes
Bud
McAdow
Yellowstone
Clark's Fork
Jacob
Bismarck
Percy McAdow
Overland Stage
Denver
Miles City
Meman Clark
Treasure
McCarthyville
Jim Hill
Puget Sound
Little Prairie
Great Northern
Eugene McCarthy
Will Hardy
McCarthy
Kalispell
Missoula
Sted McConnell
Cut Bank
Hey
Will Sardy
Lee
Quinn
Gerat Falls
Hardy
Cnuyagslap
Joe
Pierre Beaudin
Joe Benudin
Warner
Wanner
LeBlanc
Cummins
Oklahoma
Charlie Hart
al Johnson
Bill Iouston
Missoula County
Cummins and
Hart
Alaska