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, ...

The Army National Guard, in coordination with the Montana Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is conducting investigation and cleanup work on public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Military crews will be looking for and cleaning up old munitions left behind from artillery training in the 1940s and ‘50s ...

Bannack Days revives the ghost town of Bannack, Montana, showcasing 1860s life with reenactments, gold panning, and historical demonstrations for attendees. 26,546 people played the daily Crossword ...

VIRGINIA CITY — Photographer Monty Orr’s work, “Layers of Time: Capturing Bannack’s Forgotten Artistry,” is being featured through Aug. 2 at the Elling House Arts & Humanities Center, 404 E. Idaho St.

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.

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 ...