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Horse and buggy mail delivery. Before railroads, horses were the best carriers of
goods. Much mail was lost or mangled due to poor roads and bad weather. In the
1800s Congress established post roads and made the Postal Service self-sufficient.
Photo: Gallatin County Pioneer Museum
Grand opening of the Gallatin Cooperative Creamery at the old Milwaukee
Railroad Depot in Bozeman in 1932. Photo: Museum of the Rockies Archive
Grocery store interior. Grocery stores evolved from trading posts,
selling dry goods, such as flour, beans, and canned foods. Perishable
foods were sold at specialty markets — meat from a butcher, milk
from a dairy. Photo: Museum of the Rockies Archive
