Oct. 21--One man's trash is another man's gold. Case in point: Owen Voight and Paul Antonioli, independent miners who scratch less-than-meatball-sized amounts of gold out of piles of dirt on Montana ...

Out here, the past is not past. It tilts into the wind, rotting old homes, their walls covered with yellowing newspapers, chronicling the spot where 5,000 people once perched on a mother lode of gold.

MARYSVILLE, Mont. — “They say that history repeats itself,” said Shauna Simpson, standing outside Marysville’s only retail business, the Marysville House, a bar and restaurant. “I say, ‘Let it.’ “ In ...

The Bozeman Trail was a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of ...

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