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Miles City, MT

Yellowstone and Tongue River cattle and steamboat town

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1870s-1890s frontier saloon.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Yellowstone River at Tongue River mouth

Sanborn coverage plus a steamboat landing and cavalry-post trade at the river confluence make the banks a strong bottle-era lead.

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