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Hell Creek Recreation Area is a public recreation area managed by the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana occupying 337 acres (136 ha) on the south side of Fort Peck Lake twenty miles (32 km) due north of the community of Jordan, Montana. [4]
Firehole Ranch is a private 640-acre guest ranch located on Hebgen Lake in Gallatin County, Montana. [1] Owned and operated by Lynda Caine since 1999, [2] Firehole Ranch was founded in the late 1890s as Watkins Creek Ranch by George S. Watkins. Originally much larger, Watkins Creek Ranch sold much of its land to the Madison Power and Light ...
The doctor's fame spread at such a rate that the resort needed additional boarding. By 1916, a hospital wing of 20 rooms was added on to the hotel. On July 1, 1925, Dr. Townsend left his services at the Hot Springs behind, leaving Mrs. Knowles to run the hotel on her own.
In turn, other ventures began to turn away from the term, advertising themselves not as a luxury resort or a dude ranch, but a working ranch with guest rooms. That trend had become evident in the 1930s but, by the 1950s, the term dude ranch had become unpopular, with most establishments advertising themselves as simply "ranches", and stressing ...
The Dude Rancher Lodge is a motel in Billings, Montana, on the National Register of Historic Places.Known as "Billings' most unique motel", [1] it was built in 1950 with a Hollywood-western style theme inside and out with many custom features, most original to the building.
The Randalls sold the OTO in 1934 to Chan Libby (a former guest). In 1939 the OTO closed its dude ranching operations permanently. [2] After its 1939 closing the property was sold to John Paul and Jessie Shields, who owned for more than 30 years and worked it as cattle and horse ranch.
The Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, created in 1972, commemorates the Western cattle industry from its 1850s inception through recent times. The original ranch was established in 1862 by a Canadian fur trader, Johnny Grant, at Cottonwood Creek, Montana (future site of Deer Lodge, Montana), along the banks of the Clark Fork river.
The Double Arrow Lodge (NRHP designation) aka Double Arrow Ranch and Double Arrow Resort, is located about a mile south from the community of Seeley Lake, Montana and likewise from Seeley Lake itself. The rustic-style lodge building was built during 1929–1930. [2] Exterior in 2015