BANNACK, Mont. — Between Jackson and Dillon, you'll find the ghost town that paved the way for the creation of the Montana Territory. When gold was discovered at Grasshopper Creek in 1862, fortune ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bannack State Park is hosting its signature event, Bannack Days, to celebrate Montana's first territorial capital July 16 and 17. Bannack Days is filled with traditional activities, ...

Rebeccca Harrell performs with the Green Horns Band at Bannack State Park. (Tracy Scott/Valley Press) Judge Allen Williams from Wallace chases down an escaped criminal during a reenactment at Bannack ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America's famous ghost towns weren't always abandoned and dilapidated. The mining town of Bannack, Montana, was once home to 3,000 ...

Abandoned buildings in Bannack ghost town, Montana - Sue Smith/Shutterstock As the United States began expanding westward after the American Revolution, new settlements sprang up across the prairies ...

DILLON — Montana State Parks will host “Clash of Cultures: the Montana Gold Rush and the American Indians” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at Bannack State Park. Join historian and park ranger John ...

Thanks to the boom and bust mining cycles of the west, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are filled with ghost towns. Most of these towns date back to the 1800s and were totally or mostly abandoned, leaving ...

Inspecting the damage caused by flooding at Bannack State Park are, from left, park manager Dale Carlson, Lt. Gov. John Walsh, and Chas Van Genderen, administrator for Montana State Parks, pictured ...

DILLON — Linda Mazejka, vice president of the Bannack Association, was amazed by the photos she saw of the damage done to Bannack State Park when a flash flood ripped through the ghost town July 17.

The “road agents” plan a historic ride from Nevada City as they attempt to intercept a gold shipment on its way to Bannack by stagecoach. The ride, July 12-15, sponsored by the Montana Heritage ...