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his photos on the website Flickr under the name "Postmarks
from Montana," has a photo album dedicated to Golden Valley
County. He has visited many of these sites and posted both post-
marks from closed post offices and photographs of landscapes
where towns used to exist. Cade's book, by the way, makes for
fascinating reading should you be interested in this particular
section of Montana. It is available online through the Montana
State Library's Montana History Portal.
I always enjoy driving through Golden Valley County, and I
recommend it to you as well. As you drive north from Billings
on Highway 3, the land changes from the flat farmland north of
the Rimrocks into rolling hills the closer you get to the Mus-
selshell River. Once you turn west on US 12 at Lavina, you are
driving between the river on your left, and more rimrock walls
immediately to your right. Six miles west of Ryegate, if you turn
off the highway, you will find yourself in what's left of Barber,
one of the sixteen ghost towns. This town still has some life,
though. Grace Lutheran Church has been refurbished and still
serves as one of three mainline Protestant churches in Golden
Valley County.
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