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Some Important History for Bannack Montana

(PRWEB) December 1, 2005 -- July 2005 Lulu.com is the publishing site for Bannack Montana, then and now.


•    The Gold Rush 1862.

•    Bannack has a rich and colorful history. Since the first gold strike along grasshopper Creek in 1862 to its present day, Bannack has touched the lives of many.
•    This book should touch yours as you view the 50 or so buildings remaining that have been restored allowing you to revisit them and see how or what part each of them played in the making of history during the civil war and the early mining days.
•    See photo’s of the old bank exchange building, the majestic Meade Hotel, the first gold dredge in Montana, the Masonic Lodge and the first jail house.
•    See Skinner’s Saloon where the famous outlaw sheriff, Henry Plummer was said to have his headquarters also the gallows that the outlaw sheriff built and subsequently was hung on.

•    Yet the main street of Bannack is beautiful, for cottonwoods line it on both sides to leaf out in green splendor in spring and turn golden in autumn.

•    The dirt road that is Main Street is rutted, as if remembering the many wagons and carts which traversed it.

•    It’s a poor looking town, but what wealth was made over night was also lost the next day in the saloons and honky tonks. Mines and diggings still stand as reminders of the efforts spent here, but no stores where a tourist can buy a loaf of bread or fetch a cool draft in a bar can be found.

The author was born in a small cabin next to the Masonic Lodge building in 1938 while his father worked the mines for a living. The author and his wife wrote another fiction book called Poor Henry while researching for Bannack Montana. Locate this book at
www.LuLu.com/bannackmontana

Contact:
Robert J McPherson
2045 NW 5th Ave
Ontario, OR 97914
541-823-0322

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