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 ...

Have you ever wandered into a place where time seems to pause, and the sun glows on streets that no longer belong to anyone? Montana’s ghost towns hold that spell, quietly waiting for summer travelers ...

HELENA, Mont., May 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- During the late 1850s, the gold rush was booming in Montana. As the gold disappeared, so did the people, leaving behind deserted towns. Exploring ...

Garnet is one of Montana’s best-preserved ghost towns, where original buildings and guided tours bring 19th-century mining history to life for travelers. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight ...

GARNET, Mont. — About 35-miles northeast of Missoula, on Bureau of Land Management ground, you will find one of Montana's most intact ghost towns. In our Montana Moment, we found that the abandoned ...

Ghosts may be the stuff of nightmares for some folks, but not Larry and Vivian Roland. For the Missoula photographers, chronicling the disappearing haunts of the former residents of Montana's colorful ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. CASTLE TOWN - A fragment of Cynthia Estes' childhood lives here. Thirty-eight years ago, Estes ...

Dr. Richard Buswell is well-known in Helena as an allergist, a job he held for decades at St. Peter's Health. Outside of Helena and in the art world, however, he's known as a meticulous ...