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Bannack County’s Lost Glory Amid Deserted Montana Town
The Bannack settlement once Montana’s capital and Beaverhead county seat fades to a deserted village with about 25 residents. Its old log barn ties to the first territorial legislature of 1864 65, built from logs moved from Bannack’s two story council building. Bannack’s rise and fall trace mining booms Alder Gulch Grasshopper Creek and the 1860s capital move to Virginia City.
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Bannack
Montana
Big Hole
Dillon
Territorial
Amos Sheep Company
Territory of
Ames Ranch
Territory
House of Representatives
Territorial Council
First
Territorial Legislature
Francis M. Thompson
Greenfiled
Mass
Edgerton
Alder Gulch
Virginia City
State Historical Society
Historical Society
Judge Thompson
C. D. French
Plummer
Territory of Idaho
Legislative Assembly
Bitter Root Mountains
Missoula County
Wordensville
Deer Lodge County
Idaho City
Cottonwood Fork
Deer Lodge River
Beaverhead County
Idaho
Bancroft
Oregon
Washington
California
Ture
George Christian
Bannack City
R. B. Parrott
W. F. Sanders
Capitol
Ana
Grasshopper
Willard Creek
John White
Beaverhead
Nathaniel P. Langford
Lewistown
Board of County Commissioners
Leaverhead
Lutzi
Bannock
Grasshopper Creek
City of
McDonald & Co
Bannack Ditch
Nugget Hill
Jimney’s Bar
Discovery Claim
Dakota Lode
Bannack Cemetery
Gaid City
Maggie A. Gibson
Ruby Valley
Masonic Temple
Masonic Lodge of
Masons
F. L. Graves
Graves
Helena
Ames ‘Sheep Company