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billingsgriz said:
Not if, Wolf, someone buys The Grizzly Bar--I think she's asking $ 1-1 2 million, somewhere in that vicinity, and the bar is the obvious focal point of Roscoe, which has under 100 residents and, at least when I ate there, was a steak and prime-rib lover's dream !!!
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This is the second summer it’s been for sale. Haven’t seen any takers yet. Barely survived floods a couple years back. I don’t have the $ being asked for, but if I did I probably wouldn’t put it into a bar in a 1 horse town. Lots of iconic locations in these small towns struggle to make it year to year. Just as a lot of our small towns in general. Hopefully someone wants to put in an offer and try and keep it going.
 
MTCowpoke said:
That's not true, anymore. They completed the highway from Ekalaka to Alzada. Makes for a nice drive from Eastern Montana to Rapid City, Sturgis, Deadwood, Etc.
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Holy Chit! Give 'em 25-30 years, and there ain't nothin' the State of Montana can't accomplish! I'm surprised Hollywood didn't stake the place out for Westerns in the interim. Desolate as Monument Valley back then.
 
Was just in Westby this month. It has always been on my bucket list. Next is Alzada, Broadus and Ekalaka. Westby is the most NE Montana unincorporated town and is more Saskatchewan and North Dakota than anything Montana. Nevertheless, they co-op school with Grenora, N. D. and, as football fans know, they produce some pretty competitive small-town football teams. OK. Enough of this. This thread is getting boring, kinda like Westby is boring. Is it time for GRIZ season to start? Please?
 
66volvo said:
Was just in Westby this month. It has always been on my bucket list. Next is Alzada, Broadus and Ekalaka. Westby is the most NE Montana unincorporated town and is more Saskatchewan and North Dakota than anything Montana. Nevertheless, they co-op school with Grenora, N. D. and, as football fans know, they produce some pretty competitive small-town football teams. OK. Enough of this. This thread is getting boring, kinda like Westby is boring. Is it time for GRIZ season to start? Please?
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66, you need to travel to Bainville, where the daily excitement is The Empire Builder zipping through town and The State Line Bar and Grille, literally almost on the Mont./ND border--just inside Montana, Robin Selvig's Outlook --the nearest metropolis is Kraig Paulson's and now Dan Carpenter's Plentywood, also in NE Montana near Westby , and Fairview, east of Sidney, where The NDSU Bison Flag proudly flew last January over The Double Barrel Bar and Casino and will again this football season despite Fairview's favorite son Hunter Sharbono, who plays DT for MSU--the ND border is one football field east of the bar, which is owned by Bison Alum Brian Renville ( Story on DB Bar on KTVQ and KPAX website. )

I have a friend that lived in Fairview, worked in the Bakken just across the border in ND driving truck, delivering pipe, fracking sand and water to the oil wells, and he hated having to be to work in ND @ 5 AM because since that part of Western ND is on Central Time, he had to get up @ 3 AM Mountain Time in Fairview to be on time for his job in just across the border in ND. Beach, ND, south of Fairview, just across the border from Wibaux on I 94, is on Mountain Time. ( He now lives near Columbus, and loves that he lives and works in Mountain Time, and although not an alum, is a huge GRIZ fan.) I believe part of Fairview actually is in ND, if my memory serves me correctly, East Fairview, ND. ( Many of the trauma patients from Western ND being flown into the Level One Trauma Centers in Billings are rough necks injured on the job in The Bakken.)
 
66volvo said:
Was just in Westby this month. It has always been on my bucket list. Next is Alzada, Broadus and Ekalaka. Westby is the most NE Montana unincorporated town and is more Saskatchewan and North Dakota than anything Montana. Nevertheless, they co-op school with Grenora, N. D. and, as football fans know, they produce some pretty competitive small-town football teams. OK. Enough of this. This thread is getting boring, kinda like Westby is boring.
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You got a shallow bucket, Dude. Where on that list is 'Watching Paint Dry'?
 
Mick Belker said:
Volvo, you sound like a SE Montanan. I am familiar with all three places mentioned, been there, done that. Try going to Ekalaka via Alzada sometime, if you are up to a challenge. Summertime only. Now, THAT is the definition of rural.
Wolf, how'd you ever connect Westby and Alzada? Opposite corners of Eastern Montana. Three things to see in Westby: Wheat, North Dakotans, and Cannucks.
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Don't forget Kittelsons.
 
Griz in Texas said:
We originally went in through Eureka to get to our camp near the Lost Horse lookout, but we soon discovered Pipe Creek up to Drop Creek was maybe a little farther, but faster to get to the same place. We played with the idea of camping at Big Creek and bringing horses in and riding up the trail from there but did pretty well in the wall tent for 10 days a season. It was just that a lot of those years we had to chain up on all four.
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Eureka, that's God's country up there. Damn great Griz players, both men's and women's, have come out of Eureka.
 
OK. I can do you all one more: my wife and I have visited all 56 states parks. Takers?

One more: anyone been to Comertown? Once home to the Comertown Coyotes? Didn't think so. But it is on the National Register of Historic Places, believe it or not. It may be boring there, but, hey, I'm probably boring.
 
GriznMN said:
Eureka, that's God's country up there. Damn great Griz players, both men's and women's, have come out of Eureka.
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All of my hunting group are from Eureka, the heart of Montucky up there, from the Idaho line all the way to Glacier. Mafia owns a lot of Eureka and that hasn't changed. The folk up Yaak way might wander into Rexford and in a pinch they will make it to Eureka, but all the law is in Libby, LOL. Over by GNP, don't forget Polebridge. If there were seven murders in Flathead County in a year when I was a lad, likely four of them could be tied to Polebridge. Kinda like Charlie Daniels 'Wooly Swamp' come to life.
 
MTCowpoke said:
If that's the subject, one can't forget Four Buttes, Checkerboard, or Antelope.
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My God, looks like we have hit the Who's Who of irrelevant places, by todays standards, that is. When you get out a Highway Map, its plain to see there are lots of one horse towns in Montana, that is, if there IS a horse.

The Horseless Carriage put lots of places out of business. The Depression did in a bunch. The Government killed another(Glasgow Air Force Base), AKA, St. Maries. A ghost town with its own 14,000 foot runway! Great article in 'Montana: The Magazine of Western History,' current edition.

Other places just didn't notice the world passing by. Wanna see a modern day ghost town, try Mocassin. Its on the highway between Windham and Eddy's Corner(just messin' with ya! Try Stanford and Lewistown.) Some people still live there.

I know of one INCORPORATED CITY who hasn't updated its city codes in decades, and by that I'm being generous. One Ordinance dealt with hitching your horse only to hitching posts in the downtown area, or some such mundane floofle.
 
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