The sights, sounds and smells of a 19th-century town will come back to life during this year’s family-friendly Garnet Day Saturday, June 14, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The day is filled with ...

Garnet Montana Mining Ghost town Craig Abrams Buildings History MISSOULA, Mont. — About 35-miles northeast of Missoula, on Bureau of Land Management ground, you will find one of Montana's most ...

One of the best of the best — considered one of the most well-preserved ghost towns in the West — is Garnet, Montana. ... An estimated $950,000 in gold was extracted from Garnet's mines by 1917.

Silver discoveries elsewhere in Montana were beckoning them. However, in 1893, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was repealed, resulting in the closure of silver mines and thousands of men were put ...

What life is really like in a 19th-century mining camp turned tourist destination, ... The Lead Park Ranger of Montana's Garnet Ghost Town Swears the Place Isn't Haunted.

Jan. 21—A sign above Montana History teacher Kris Schreiner's classroom alerts Kalispell Middle School eighth graders that they are entering Alder Gulch to mine for gold and garnets. Alder Gulch ...

The sights, sounds and smells of a 19th-century town will come back to life during this year’s family-friendly Garnet Day Saturday, June 14, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The day is filled with ...

A student helps move material through a sluice in search for gold, garnets and other minerals during Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner's Montana History class on Tuesday, Jan. 16.