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A view from 1939:

SUPERIOR, (2,725 alt., 350 pop.), is divided by the Clark Fork. The log and frame buildings of the 1870's and 1880's, mostly abandoned, lie at the base of a steep grade on the right bank. On the flat across the river are the buildings of the newer town.

The town's name was used in 1869 by a settlement at the mouth of Cedar Creek, 1 mile east, whose first citizen came from Superior, Wis. When this settlement was abandoned, the name was appropriated by the new town.
The Ordean Hotel, with gabled roof and a two-story veranda, was once a favorite stopping place of prospectors who came in from the gulch with a "load in their pokes." They felt that its plush and gilt, mirrors and marble, justified the high cost of the otherwise meager accommodations. The drunker a man became, the more elegant the place seemed.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.