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Willow Creek store and
post office in 1905. Wil-
low Creek currently has
an area of one square
mile and is near the Jef-
ferson River. In the photo
the dry goods store also
houses the post office as
is still the case in many
rural towns. The men and
women sit on grain bags
in their working clothes.
These horses pull a carriage on the trail to Mystic Lake in a photo taken
around 1900. You can reach Mystic Lake the long way—on a 16-mile round
trip logging road from Bozeman (Sourdough) Creek. Or from New World
Gulch off Bear Canyon. Photo: Museum of the Rockies Photo Archive
North Coast Limited poster. In the
1890s, railroads needed money to
complete lines across Montana and
the continent. They launched an
aggressive campaign to get people
to settle in Montana. Northern
Europeans were targeted because
of the similar climate; as a result, a
tidal wave of homesteaders arrived,
including many of Montana's im-
migrants.
Photo: Livingston Depot
