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Bannack
1862
Beaverhead County, Montana
Mark Holloway from Anaconda, Montana · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Montana's first territorial capital, born of its first big gold strike. Its sheriff, Henry Plummer, ran the road-agent gang robbing his own citizens and was hanged by vigilantes on a gallows he had built. Sixty buildings stand, kept as a state park in arrested decay.
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