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Big Timber, MT

Yellowstone and Boulder River wool and trade town

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1880s-1910s wool-shipping.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Yellowstone River at Boulder River mouth

Sanborn coverage plus a rail town at the Boulder-Yellowstone junction makes the riverside margins a solid bottle-era lead.

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