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Beartown

Garnet Preservation Association and Bureau of Land Management of Montana

A view from 1939:

BEARTOWN, (4,583 alt., 3 pop.). Stamping ground of the notorious "Beartown Roughs," and one-time runner-up for State capital, Beartown is said to have yielded $1,000,000 in silver and gold in 1866 and 1867.

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