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MONTANA DINOSAUR TRAIL GARNET GHOST TOWN

„Daneelo Nugara

and the 7th Cavalry’s 'last stand' against a combined Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, including Crazy Horse of the Lakota Sioux in one of the American Indian's last armed efforts to preserve their way of life.

A Montana statewide trail consisting of 14 locations from the Bynum Montana Dinosaur Center to the Ekalaka Carter County Museum has stellar displays

Step back to 1898, more than a hundred years ago, when Garnet was a thriving town of gold miners and their families who worked hard to carve out a community tucked away into the heart of the Garnet Mountains at the head of First Chance Creek at an elevation of about 6,000 feet.

Named after the brown garnet rock, a semi-precious stone which was used as an abrasive and found in the area, the town dates back to 1895 but has been deserted since the 1930s.

Today, there are a dozen or so buildings that have been preserved in a state of 'arrested decay' to transport visitors to the gold-rush days, when cities sprang up overnight and vanished just as fast.

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