Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...

The town's remote location tucked in the Garnet Range of Montana's Rocky Mountains ... and the town has been abandoned since. In 1960, the mine was officially declared dead, and the town was ...

America's western states are full of these towns; many were founded during the mining ... enjoying Montana's blue skies and breathtaking scenery, make a pit stop in Nevada City, a ghost town ...