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Boot Hill
Virginia City, MT
Drive or walk up the hill overlooking Alder Gulch to the two-part
cemetery where road agents hanged by the Vigilantes are buried
separately from respectable folk.
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C.M.
Russell Museum
400 13th St. N., Great Falls, MT 59401
406-727-8787
Experience the
Old West through the eyes of cowboy artist Charlie Russell at
the C.M. Russell Museum. See the most complete collection of his
art, personal objects, home & studio.
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Gilbert
Brewery
Hamilton & Cover streets, Virginia City, MT 59655
Summertime variety
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Historic
Virginia City & Nevada City, Montana
P.O. Box 338, Virginia City, MT 59755
800-829-2969
The historic
towns of Virginia City and Nevada City are the best preserved
examples of the gold mining and life in the old west.
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Museum
of the Rockies
S. 7th Ave. & Kagy Blvd., Bozeman, MT 59715
406-994-3466
Dinosaur remains
and life-size models based on Montana fossil discoveries, planetarium,
Montana history from Native Americans onward. Living history
farm operates during summer.
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Peter
Yegen Jr. Yellowstone County Museum
1950 Terminal Circle, Billings, MT 59105
406 256-6811
The museums focus is prehistory of the Plains/Montana
to the 1950's. Exhibits and archives include materials specific
to Northern Plains Indian Tribes, western expansion, mining, cattle/sheep
herding industries, transportation industries, military (1870-1950's),
various
medical fields, music, textiles, household and personal goods. |
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Virginia
City
Virginia City, MT
800-829-2969, ext. 421
Founded by gold
rushers in 1864, part of the town’s original buildings are
now a Montana state park, businesses preserved as they were and
staffed by costumed interpreters in the summer months. |
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Virginia
City Opera House
340 N. Wallace St., Virginia City, MT 59755
Nineteenth-century-style
plays, including melodramas where the audience hisses the villain
and cheers the heroine. |
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Western Heritage
Center
2822 Montana Ave. Billings, MT 59101
406-256-6809
Yellowstone
River history and culture are themes of changing exhibits.
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Yellowstone Art
Museum
401 N. 27 St., Billings, MT 59101
406-256-6804
Changing exhibits by regional, national and international artists
and a permanent collection of contemporary and historic art
are housed in the former county jail.
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