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Montana: Bannack & Butte
The Lemhi Pass is on the Continental Divide. There is tla “Farest Fountain”, the source that is furthest from the delta of the Missouri / Mississippi.
1. Farest Fountain Creek.
2. Typical portal
3. Coyote Flat.
4. Arrival at Bannack, another really weel preserved Ghost Town in Montana that time.
5. Scool in the ground floor and…
6. … Masonic Lodge up the first floor!
7. The hotel which was before the first Courthouse of Montana.
8. Perfectly preserved cabin.
9. An ancestor of VivaLaVida! 😀
10. Church among the houses
11. Overview.
12. Leaving Bannack, I saw him. Probably a young great owl.
13. Typical farm of Montana.
14. Butte is definitely a particular mining town: the historic upper town is built of red brick…
15. Old building.
16. Main Street
17. Corner building.
18. Antique advertising…
19. Schoolgirls…
20. The drilling tower are even the city, there are a dozen of those.
The next update will bring you in Glacier National Park, far North of Montana… 😉
Ghost Towns of Idaho
As announced, here are some images of three ghost towns dating from the gold rush. Most of them have been inhabited for a few years before new gold discoveries decide to relocate their inhabitants.
1. First visit at Custer, in Yankee Valley
2. Traditional log construction.
3. This house was built in 1854.
4. Second visited site, Bayhorse. The mill for sorting the ore is still standing. This site was initially very popular for gold – this is the site where the largest amount of gold was extracted at that time (approx. US$ 90 million!) – then silver and copper.
5. Seven coal furnace allowed to produce this essential fuel.
6. Higher in the same valley, the SkyLark mine where a steam freight elevator allowed to bring the ore mined down the valley.
7. One of the Skylark mines.
8. River West of Salmon.
9. I got to spend the night to another hot spring which pools were unfortunately destroyed by the floods of winter…
10. Diagonal…
11. Late afternoon.
12. He turned when I touched his tail… 😉
13. The first Big Horn Sheep I saw.
14. On the road to Lemhi Pass, in typical grasslands of North Idaho and Montana.
15. I spent the night at Lemhi Pass, on the Continental Divide. Beautiful rainy Sunset.
16. Sky like a paint…
17. Amazing clouds while the sun is down since long…
The following will show you a little of Montana, in a few days… 😉
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