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* Bannack, Montana, town named after the tribe, today a ghost town
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Bannack, Montana, USA, a well-preserved ghost town that is now a state park.
* From late December 1863 to 1864 the Montana Vigilantes were formed by citizens of Bannack, Virginia City and nearby Nevada City to fight lawlessness in the gold mining region of Montana.
As its population swelled, the new Idaho Territorial legislature changed the town's name to " Idaho City ," to avoid confusion with Bannack, Montana, in present-day Beaverhead County, the southwestern corner of Montana.
The bridge improved travel for settlers moving north and west and for miners, freighters, and others seeking riches in the gold fields of Idaho and Montana, especially, the boom towns of Bannack and Virginia City in western Montana.
Riverboat travel to Fort Benton further provided an important route for miners to the newly-discovered gold fields of southern Montana at what became Virginia City / Bannack beginning in 1860, and Helena, beginning in 1865.
The expedition ended up at the Grasshopper Creek gold fields in the area soon to be named Bannack, Montana.
Langford was also part of the vigilante movement, the infamous Montana Vigilantes, that dealt with lawlessness in Virginia City and Bannack, Montana during 1863-64.
The discovery of gold in 1863 around Bannack, Montana encouraged white settlers to find an economical route to the gold fields.
Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon.
Twenty-two individuals were accused, informally tried, and hanged by the Vigilance Committee ( the Montana Vigilantes ) of Bannack and Virginia City.
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Henry Plummer ( 1832 – 1864 ) served as sheriff of what became Bannack, Montana, from May 24, 1863 until January 10, 1864, when he was hanged without legal system trial by the controversial Montana Vigilantes.
As gold had recently been discovered in nearby Bannack, Montana, Plummer decided to go there to try to earn enough money to support them both.
* May 24, 1863 Henry Plummer is elected sheriff of Bannack, Montana
Pygmy rabbits are found in southwestern Montana from the extreme southwest corner near the Idaho border north to Dillon and Bannack in Beaverhead County.
Bannack and town
Bannack continued as a mining town, though with a dwindling population.
The town is presently the site of Bannack State Park.
In fact, Plummer was viewed very favorably by most town residents and, in May, he was elected sheriff of Bannack.
Montana and town
* Canton, Montana, a former town now situated under Canyon Ferry Lake
Ghost towns are common in mining or old mill town areas: Arizona, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington in the western United States and West Virginia in the eastern USA.
In Missoula, Montana, skeletal celebrants on stilts, novelty bicycles, and skis parade through town.
On April 5, 2063, Vulcans and Humans made official first contact near the town of Bozeman, Montana following the successful test of Earth scientist Zefram Cochrane's first warp-powered starship, as depicted in Star Trek: First Contact.
* Avon, Montana, a town
* Union City, Montana, ghost town
The film began shooting on April 16, 1979, in Glacier National Park, east of Kalispell, Montana, with the majority of the town scenes filmed in the Two Medicine area, north of the village of East Glacier Park.
It flows past the town of Milk River and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, then turns southeast into Montana, passing through the Fresno Dam, then east past Havre and along the north side of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
The largest of its council camps is K-M Scout Ranch ( pronounced K bar M ), is located 23 miles north of Lewistown, Montana near the old mining town of Kendall.
The town of Leadore dates from 1910, when the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad was constructed from Armstead, Montana over Bannock Pass and into the Lemhi Valley.
Lima is a town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States.
The town was established after the Crow Indian Agency was relocated to present-day Crow Agency, Montana.
Lodge Grass is a town in Big Horn County, Montana, United States.
Bearcreek is a town in Carbon County, Montana, United States.
The town was platted and incorporated after the arrival of the Montana, Wyoming & Southern Railroad in 1906.
Bridger is a town in Carbon County, Montana, United States.
Fromberg is a town in Carbon County, Montana, United States.
Joliet is a town in Carbon County, Montana, United States.
Ekalaka is a town in and the county seat of Carter County, Montana, United States.
Belt is a town in Cascade County, Montana, United States.
Cascade ( Waterfall in French ) is a town in Cascade County, Montana, United States.
Neihart is a town in Cascade County, Montana, United States.
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