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Ghost Cities of Montana Its Lost Mining Past
A reminiscence traces Bannack Montana City Diamond Carrol Coulson McCarthyville and other ghost towns. It recalls their boom era glory in mining and railroads their decline and today their remaining ruins and legends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarn Hill
Carroll
McCarthyville
Bannack
Montana
Moving Picture Company
Hangman’s Gulch
Nellie Paget
Nellie
Henry Plummer
Dillon
Beaverhead County
Hope
Helena
Montana City
Last Chance Gulch
Rocky Mountain
Dame Fortune
Nature
Butte
Silver Bow County
Highland City
Gold Camp
Frontier Town
Silver Bow Creek
Red Mountain City
Diamond City
Virginia City
Diamond
Meagher County
The
Missouri
Missouri River
Musselshell
Wilder
Wilder’s Landing
Diamond R Company
Mississippi River
Pacific Coast
Fort Benton
Matt Carroll
E. G. Maclay
George Steele
Charles A. Broadwater
Billings
Northern Pacific
Coulson
Treasure
Great Northern Railway Company
Jim Hill
Puget Sound
Little Prairie
Eugene McCarthy
Will Hardy
Mr. McCarthy
Eaten
Demersville
Flathead Valley
Flathead County
Lfe
Frank B. Linderman
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