Tracy Scott Valley Press, Clark Fork Valley Press & Mineral Independent, Plains, Mont. Jul. 27—Nestled along Grasshopper Creek, among the foothills of the Pioneer Mountains, lies what is now know as ...
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 ...
John White and William Eades, Pikes Peakers fresh from the played-out diggings in Colorado, stopped along a creek in southwestern Montana and panned for gold. They found enough to launch Montana s ...