Hunting Trip

Don and Phillip made the long drive out from Tennessee last week for the first week of rifle season. Hunting was good. They each got a bull. Don also got a deer.

Here is the homemade wall tent we camped in:

I got this Whitetail deer today near our place.

Bannack Ghost Town

This weekend we visited Bannack, the first Territorial Capital of Montana. It was also the site of the first gold strike in MT and led to a big gold rush in 1863. Mining continued up until around the 1950s. The state then bought out the remaining residents and preserved it as a State Park.

It looks pretty much as it would have in the 1800s, with fewer buildings.





Here are the old jails and one of the local cowboys "whooping it up"

8th of October - Overcast and chilly

Fred and Brandon got up at 5:00 this morning to go hunting. They saw nothing but goats on the way back home. Here is Brandon sneaking up to them.

Here is Brandon and me standing on the bridge on Sunday after church.