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VA City, Bozeman, Livingston

I left Bannack for Virginia City, where old storefronts, vigilante history and an unexpected David Yarrow gallery kept me walking for hours. After a brief stop in Bozeman, I continued to Livingston for an evening bike ride, then spent the next day at Rx Coffee and the local library before dinner and another quiet night in town.

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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.

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