Miners Persist in Search of Vanished Highland City Ghost Town
In the northern Rockies remnants of Highland City linger as old miners and guides recount booming days in the 1860s. Gold pours, vigilance committees, and crude frontier justice shaped a camp that now survives only in graveyards cellars and scattered placer workings.
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Rocky Mountains
Highland City
Butte
Vipa City
Nevada
Highland Gulch
Big Hole
Highland
Early Montana Ghost Towns Diamond City Bannack
The article recalls Montana gold camps and their rise and fall. Diamond City, once central to central Montana mining, declined from 1866 to 1870 and dwindled to two residents by 1936. Bannack, linked to Grasshopper Diggings, hosted early emigrants and named places reflecting Civil War loyalties including Jefferson Davis and Yankee Flat.
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Montana
Diamond City
Confederate Gulch
Beaverhead River
Rattlesnake Creek
Diggins
Bannack
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
Yankee Flat
Thomas Dimsdale The Timid Editor Of Montana Gold Camp
In Virginia City during the 1860s a frail Englishman Thomas Josiah Dimsdale rose to prominence as editor of the Montana Post and early schoolmaster, serving as territory superintendent of public instruction and editor of the Vigilantes narrative while contending with illness. He died in September 1866 after a marked career shaping Montana journalism and education.
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Montana
Virginia City
Thomas Josiah Dimsdale
Vigilantes
Territory
New Commonwealth
Imsdale
Rugby
Oxford
Dimsdale
Canada
Rocky Mountains
Territory of
Sidney Edgerton
Montana Post
Messrs
Tilton
Dittes
de Re
Embryo
George Ives
Ministers of Justice
Raceger
Mammoth Hotel to Be Replaced by New Park Complex
A 50 year old Mammoth Hot Springs hotel is to be torn down for a $200000 building program. Yellowstone Park Hotel Co president William M. Nichols says the Mammoth area will be ready before next season with more than 400 guest rooms in a new quadrangle near Mount Sepulchre.
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Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel
William M. Nichols
Yellowstone Park Hotel Co
Mammoth Hot Springs
Mount Sepulchre
Park Bears Sailing For Rotterdam Zoo
A pair of Rocky Mountain black bears, four years old, are being moved to Rotterdam Zoological Garden to add Yellowstone Park atmosphere. They were lured into a bear trap made from a road culvert. hamstring failure led to capture before shipment to Mammoth Hot Springs, crated in a special cage, exposed to Los Angeles, then transported to Wilmington, California and boarded the 8 8S, Drecitdyk for the sea voyage.
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Rocky Mountain
Holland
Zoological Gardens
Rotterdam
Mammoth Hot Springs
Los Angeles
Iimington
Calif
Bannack’s Ghost Capital and Montana’s Beginnings
Nathaniel Langford recalls Bannack as isolated in 1863 1864. The capital moved from Bannack to Virginia City after rich placers drew settlers away. Quartz mining kept some life, but towns like Castle Copperopolis vanished, leaving ghost streets overgrown and erased by time.
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Bannack
Nathaniel Langford
Montana
Napoleon
St. Helena
States
Antietam
parCkeUry
Bull Run
Montana Territory
Virginia City
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George Marsh
Thomas Dimsdale
First
Mammoth
Park Bears
Rotterdam Zoo
New Officers
Montana Press Association
Harry H. Howard
Henry O. Woare
Bozeman
Henry O. Weare
Helena
Montana State Press Association
Red Lodge
Yellowstone National Park
Ic Oo
Conoco
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