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Bannack Montana Ghost Town
I spent the morning walking through Bannack, Montana, reading the stories behind its old saloons, schoolhouse, assay office, Hotel Meade and abandoned homes. What looks at first like a quiet ghost town quickly becomes a much darker story of gold, road agents, vigilantes, Henry Plummer and a settlement that briefly served as Montana’s territorial capital.