Pioneer City - A Montana Ghost Town - Near Gold Creek, Montana MT

In the 1870's, Pioneer Mining District had about one thousand people living in the area. Pioneer City was the main town and service center. It had a post office, four breweries, six saloons, four general stores and two hotels.

By the late 1870's, gold worth over 333 billion (in today's dollars) was extracted from the area. When placer operations were no longer profitable, three dredges were used to dig down to bedrock. The town was moved and rebuilt to accommodate the destruction of the Mosier dredge. Most of the buildings in the new Pioneer City were ultimately destroyed by the dredge anyway.

The buildings that survived the dredge couldn't survive dynamite and a bulldozer that was used to expand a cattle pasture. What remains today are the ruins of a few miners cabins.

A poem from a bartender published in the "Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer" on April 27, 1871:

Take pity, Miss Fanny
The Belle of Pioneer
And grant some indulgence
To a vendor of beer
Whose heart rending anguish
Will bring on decline
Oh, God of creation,
I wish you was mine.
We'd live in a parlor
Behind the saloon
With sour-krout in plenty

For our honeymoons;
We'd have schnapps by the bottle
To make it go down
And live in more splendor
Than any in town.
There is Fowler and Fischer
And Wallace of yore
There's cows and there's chickens
And many things more
But none like your Perry
That sells lager beer
His tender heart is breaking
Each day in Pioneer.

So now my dear Fanny
If you will incline
To join me in wedlock
Just drop me a line
And great expectations
With me you will share
Not to mention the sour-krout
And oceans of beer.
Pioneer City, April 24th, 1871

This sequence was captured with a Canon Vixia HFS-100 camera and edited with Adobe Premier Pro 6.0.

Music is "Perspectives" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
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