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A view from 1939:
GALLATIN GATEWAY, (4,906 alt., 160 pop.),
near the entrance to Gallatin Canyon is announced by an arch
of logs over the highway. The town exists only through the
tourist trade, and so its residents strive for rustic and picturesque
effect in their buildings. Until the railroad company made
it the terminus of a branch line to Yellowstone Park, it was
known as Salesville, for Zach Sales who had a mill here in
the late 1860's to saw logs driven down the Gallatin River.
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.
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