Rodeos in Montana are what we all look forward to during the long winters. Montana may be a tourism-based state but we are an agricultural state as well and Rodeos in Montana are one of the highlights of summer. The hundreds of ranches are, for the most part, still worked on horseback. The Cowboys &…
The Pintler Wilderness Area was designated as a Primitive Area in 1937, and reclassified as a Wilderness Area in 1964. It is administered jointly by the Beaverhead-Deerlodge and Bitterroot National Forests. The name is derived from the town and its copper mining company and from Charles and Katie Pintler, homesteaders who in 1885 settled along…
Hector Horton first discovered silver in the general area in 1865. In the autumn of 1872 the Granite mine was discovered by a prospector named Holland. The mine was relocated in 1875. This is one of the best of all ghost camps. This was the richest silver mine on the earth, and it might never…
The Anaconda Smelter Stack is a brick smoke stack, once part of the smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Anaconda, Montana in the United States. The stack is 585 feet 1 1⁄2 inches (178.346 m) tall, excluding its foundation. The stack contains 2,464,652 locally manufactured perforated tile bricks, each averaging 2.7 times larger by volume than the…