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    Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where...
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  • establishment of the town of Bannack. Bannack was a gold rush boomtown that was the first territorial capital of Montana Territory for a brief period...
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  • 3-7-77 (category Pre-statehood history of Montana)
    include: The numbers represent the date the Vigilante Oath was signed in Bannack, Montana, the first seat of Justice in the state. This claim is perpetuated...
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    Henry Plummer (category People from Beaverhead County, Montana)
    him and she agreed. As gold had recently been discovered in nearby Bannack, Montana, Plummer decided to go there to try to earn enough money to support...
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    period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions. Some examples are Bannack, Montana and Oatman, Arizona in the United States; Barkerville, British Columbia...
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    the gold fields of Grasshopper Creek, Bannack, Montana. They were on their way to Yellowstone Country from Bannack but were waylaid by a band of Crow Indians...
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  • Pass, between Idaho and Montana Russell Bannock (1919–2020), Canadian World War II flying ace and test pilot Bannack, Montana, town named after the tribe...
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    (1861–1864). Montana Territory became a territory of the United States on May 26, 1864. The first territorial capital was located at Bannack. Sidney Edgerton...
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    John Bozeman (category Explorers of Montana)
    Bozeman later joined the January 1863 rush to newly discovered gold in Bannack, Montana, but his claims there proved unsuccessful. Seeing that it would be...
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    strikes were made at Alder Gulch, Montana in 1864 spawning present day Virginia City, Montana and Bannack, Montana, the first territorial capital. In...
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    Innocents (gang) (category Gangs in Montana)
    they killed many travelers who resisted. Sheriff Henry Plummer of Bannack, Montana was accused of leading the group, and was executed by a group of vigilantes...
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  • The Ballad of Lefty Brown (category Films shot in Montana)
    place at Bannack State Park in Bannack, Montana, 25 miles southwest of Dillon. Other locations included Dillon, Montana, Virginia City, Montana and Ennis...
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    first discovered in Montana in 1852, but mining did not begin until 1862, when gold placers were discovered at Bannack, Montana in 1862. The resulting...
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    feet (1,959 m), Bannack, Beaverhead County, 45°09′40″N 112°59′44″W / 45.16111°N 112.99556°W / 45.16111; -112.99556 (Bannack, Montana), el. 5,728 feet...
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    Nathaniel P. Langford (category Montana pioneers)
    at the Grasshopper Creek gold fields in the area soon to be named Bannack, Montana. There Langford and his fellow businessmen established freight companies...
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  • Cyrus Skinner (category People from Montana)
    people in Bannack, Montana. Skinner, like many of his outlaw friends, was killed by the Montana Vigilantes. Thomas Dimsdale, editor of the Montana Post and...
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  • haunted. Union Cemetery and Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri Bannack, a ghost town, was founded in 1862 and named after the Bannock Indian tribe...
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  • Henry Plummer 1837–1864 Marshal, Nevada City, California; Sheriff Bannack, Montana Robert Jack Price No image available 1848–1930 Constable Alexander...
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    a beaver's head. The original county seat was the gold-mining town of Bannack. In 1881 it was moved to Dillon. According to the United States Census...
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    nearby boomtowns such as Bannack, Argenta, Glen, and Virginia City. In 1881, Dillon became part of a contentious battle with Bannack to become the county...
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    attracted many migrants who initiated major gold rushes at Grasshopper Creek (Bannack) and Alder Gulch (Virginia City) in 1862 and 1863 respectively. So many...
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    Western Heritage Awards Abilene, Kansas Aspen, Colorado Bandera, Texas Bannack, Montana Bishop, California Bodie, California Buffalo, Wyoming Calico Ghost...
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    The Territory of Montana was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26, 1864, until November 8, 1889, when it...
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    infamous Montana Vigilantes. Up to 15 road agents were hanged by the vigilantes in December 1863 and January 1864, including the sheriff of Bannack and alleged...
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  • of Montana convenes in Bannack, Montana. December 30 – Territorial Legislative Assembly names Virginia City as the first incorporated town in Montana. February...
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    Plummer (1832–1864), sheriff and outlaw leader of The Innocents, in Bannack, Montana, Idaho Territory "US Gazetteer files 2010". United States Census Bureau...
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    Charles Arthur Broadwater (category Infectious disease deaths in Montana)
    his career in 1862 as a livestock trader in the gold rush town of Bannack, Montana. He soon extended his interests into transportation, becoming superintendent...
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  • mountain pass in Beaverhead County, Montana. It is located between Bannack, Montana and Dillon, and traversed by Montana Secondary Highway 278. The Badger...
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    William A. Clark (category Democratic Party United States senators from Montana)
    fields to find his fortune in the Montana gold rush. He settled in the capital of Montana Territory, Bannack, Montana, and began placer mining. Though...
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    interest associated with Plummer such as Nevada City, California and Bannack, Montana and central Idaho. Pauley was an amateur historian described by his...
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