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Bannack, Montana founded in 1862, is now a ghost town. It was capital of Montana Territory briefly in 1864.

Bannack continued as a mining town, though with a dwindling population. The last residents left in the 1970s.

Bannack's sheriff, Henry Plummer, was said to be the head of a gang that was responsible for nearly a hundred deaths; twenty-two men were eventually hanged by a mob for their presumed crimes.

The last man hanged may have done nothing more than express an opinion that several of those previously hanged had been innocent.

Bannack Montana The Ghost Town

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Bannack Montana ( The Ghost Town )