The abandoned Gold Rush town in Montana that once bustled with 100,000 prospectors now lies empty...

The Daily Mail | 27 June 2013 | James Nye

[bkepley]

Once home to 10,000 hungry prospectors, each with a golden glint in their eye, these are the ruins of the town of Bannack - now a ghostly shell of its gilded past.

Founded in 1862 as the first territorial capital of Montana, the abandoned and silent town still boasts 60 structures - all of which can be explored by history lovers of the Old West.

Built along the banks of Grasshopper Creek, at its peak Bannack's Main Street had three hotels, three bakeries, three blacksmith shops, two stables, a grocery store, a restaurant, a billiard hall and of course, four saloons.

[bkepley]

I love Bannack

[E. Pluribus Unum]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350339/Abandoned-Montana-Historic-Gold-Rush-town-lies-ghostly-glory.html

[Paladin2]

Fun to visit.

[cripplecreek]

I love salted peanuts and I’m not wearing any socks.

[cripplecreek]

Very cool. The place is in remarkably good shape.

[Vigilanteman]

Amazingly great shape considering that the last of the town died in the 1940s and most of it long before that.

People sure knew how to build back then.

While I understand it is still young compared to the castles in Europe, remember that these buildings were built by ordinary Americans, not legions of serfs or slaves which could be commanded by royalty.

[BookaT]

At least only 1 in 10 were hungry.

[Lorianne]

Deadwood

[bkepley]

Thanks

[Dysart]

Yeah, and there’s also even more ghostly Virginia City, Mt NE of Yellowstone. On my last visit there was a still a saloon amid a row of abandoned storefronts and grazing wild horses across the narrow rural highway. I’ve got to find me pictures of the place! Could be a wonderful destination to vanish should the mood strike and a cozy DIY cabin suits ya okay.

[oh8eleven]

The abandoned Gold Rush town in Montana that once bustled with 100,000 prospectors ...
Once home to 10,000 hungry prospectors ...
Somewhere between the title and the first sentence, you lost 90,000 prospectors.

[bkepley]

I like Virginia city too especially Boot Hill.

[blueunicorn6]

I thought this was going to be a story about Butte.

[cripplecreek]

Somewhere between the title and the first sentence, you lost 90,000 prospectors.

The Montana octagonal.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Apparently, 10,000 of the prospectors were hungry, the other 90,000 had full stomachs.

Or an extra “0” was placed in the headline.

[oh8eleven]

Apparently, 10,000 of the prospectors were hungry, the other 90,000 had full stomachs.
I noticed that - thought the same thing. LOL ...

[Dead Corpse]

Bear Butte, SD?

[jeffc]

Looks like a pretty good fixer-upper! :-)

[Zhang Fei]

How is it that a town less than 20 miles from an interstate highway can lie abandoned?

[DIRTYSECRET]

I thought Boot Hill was inTombstone.