This book covers the Montana ghost town story in detail, offering photographs and textual commentary from an on-the-ground perspective by someone totally enthralled with the adventure of visiting these remnants of the Treasure State's early era of gold diggings and mining.
This book is book is divided into ten chapters featuring specific geographic regions. They include the Garnet Range, Gold Creek Camps, Pintler Scenic Route, the Big Hole Basin, the Deer Lodge area, Clark Fork Country, the Great (Continental) Divide, Missouri Headwaters, the Big Belt District and Montana Territory.
On visiting the places featured in this book, we found that some of the buildings portrayed in earlier accounts had simply disappeared. A few have been torn down in the short time it took to assemble this book and time, neglect and weather continue to take their toll on the more remote locations. Those that are protected by state or federal agencies have fared somewhat better than the many other desolate and long forgotten town sites. Whitfield believes that his photographs document the best of what remains of Montana's ghost towns and gold camps.
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