I am 91 - Was in the Air Force in Havre MT 1955 56 Got married - now in New York - went back many times with my Family loved Montana - still do Excellent presentation thankyou
My family farms south of Barber. That general store was the Franson and Morrison general store. It held the areas switchboard for telephones and was the main place of business for many people in the area. Originally the towns name was Shawmut, but when the town refused to sell property to the Milwaukee road for a depot, the Milwaukee moved its station stop a few miles west and took the name shawmut with it. Supposedly they renamed the town Barber because it had a “clean shave for a new name”. My grandfather told many stories of that store and growing up on the farm out south. He spent a few nights in the apartment above the store, while waiting for his folks to ride the wagon from the farm to retrieve him.
I'm 64 in Australia. Now crippled and can't walk after years of being active and good health. It sux and it's almost driving me crazy ! Thanks to the internet , we can see places that we have no chance of visiting. I'd go mad if I didn't have a way to spend a large amount of time surfing the internet and watching quality shows like this. Take care.
@@charliepearce8767here are a couple of recommendations: "Desert Drifter", this man concentrates of remote sites in Southwest US desert areas where ancient native Americans lived. "Sidertack Adventures", this man shows sites of early white settlers in rugged, old Southwestern US locations. Both of these guys have well researched, well videoed and respectful reports just like this one.
Watching from Selangor, Malaysia. Thank You for recording and putting up these videos. I'm 64 and not much of a traveller. Since it's very unlikely I'd go oversea, watching videos like this is the best way to discover various places in the world.
I am watching from Krasnoyarsk, Eastern Siberia. Cool video, it looks like a movie about cowboys and Indians. People who built it in the middle of nowhere were made from steel.
I enjoyed this very much. We're from Miles City, MT and my Grandpa retired from the Milwaukee RR. I worked one summer on a crew tearing up the old railroad tracks. Sections of the old railroad bed are now part of a trail system you can walk all the way into western WA. The trail through the Cascades is spectacular and features a tunnel that is over 2- 1/4 miles long.
It is sad to see so many abandoned settlements. Landscape.. House.. Countryside. Here and in other similar places, people were once born. Lived.. they loved... Died. There is a sadness beyond time in these sequences. Thank you for your work and sharing your video footage. Greetings from Hungary 🇭🇺
@@inhiscare1 I am very glad that a descendant of a Hungarian brother who has been torn away writes to me. Be lucky and healthy together with your family. ❤️🙂
I lived there until 2016. I have heard of many of these because my dad bought me the Ghost Towns of Montana book. we used to fish at a lot of places where logging camps and mining towns were. One was Black Pine and one was Combination. I grew up in Hall and my grandparents lived in Maxville.
Hello Chris, as I've mentioned, I'm from little Wilbur Wa. Farming, Still holding up. When I hear your footsteps in the gravel, I am reminded of the years we walked the gravel lane, home from the bus or across the lot to our little park. The sound of your footsteps is precious to me. I'm reminded of when we could meander everywhere in relative safety. Also, the sound of walking in the grasses reminds me of everyday travel as a kid. The buildings you found, wow!! Even the ones in ruin are worth of my admiration for how long they sheltered someone with very little protection themselves. Love the way you clipped your film for our easy viewing. Much love to you❤, Patricia 1951
@@patriciapiper6294 growing up in rural Northern Minnesota and working putting up here for farmers in the summer season is some thing I cherish and will never forget. Plenty of small towns in the area at the time. They weren’t abandoned as yet, but they never were really thriving. Still, very special to, my memories.
@robfelt9283 being part of summer harvest. We'll, you can't beat it!! It's huge. You must be rough and ready to work with bruses sometimes but the farm work proves your worth every day!!👍🇺🇲
I grew up on a farm south of Tioga, ND. We went across the border to Canada to fish several times. When I graduated from high school in 1957 I went to California for college, first in the South Bay area where I attended college at Northrop Aeronautical Institute and El Camino College, then graduating from Cal Berkeley in 1962. After completing a masters degree in 1963, I took a job in Newport Beach, then Santa Barbara where I started my own business. I retired to Las Vegas in 1998, where I still reside. I've been enjoying your videos along our northern border in Canada and the US. Keep up the good work!
I just found your channel and I've enjoyed watching a few of your tours. I'm in N. Utah and we have several ghost towns I've explored but these are mostly intact and more derelict than completely lost to time. Perhaps some will be resettled or restored one day. Thanks and keep em coming.
Watching from New Orleans. My wife’s father was chief of the rail operations In Harlowton, MT up until the Milwaukee went bankrupt in 1980. We recently went back there for my wife’s 50th HS reunion. We flew to Billings and rented a vehicle, and drove through a couple of these places on the way to Harlowton. This past week we attended my 50th HS reunion in Sioux City, Iowa…..very much a boom town! Growing by leaps and bounds since I left there many years ago!
You are in New Orleans....with my people I was born & raised in Houma....all my family is from there. My aunt & uncle might not be far from you.....they are in Bucktown, New Orleans
I was able to visit Castle Town in 1957, when I was seven . I still remember the town. It was completely abandoned even then. You could see the whole town. The buildings and houses were empty but sturdy. I think a person could easily have just picked any house and been able to live in it. Compleyely off grid, but live in it. Sad to see it in ruins.
Ghost towns are so creepy. On my grandfather's farm, there was an abandoned village on the property, it even had a church. The houses were in perfect condition, except for a thick layer of dust inside. I remember exploring this village, and I remember the strange, unsettling feeling that something wasn't right. I never asked my grandfather about the history of the village. Somehow I felt like I shouldn't ask when I was a kid.
lived in cut bank to age 5 or 6. It was cold in my memory. Moved to Milwakee with my mother in 1963 and lived here ever since. thanks for the video tour. Maybe I'll go visit some day whil I still can
I was last in Montana in 1961 (summer) as a "wheatie." A high-school 11th grader, working the wheat harvest, from Texas, thru OK, KS, NE, the Dakotas and Montana.- I remember places in Montana; Vida, Wolf Point, and Four Buttes. That summer was my high-school adventure. My experiences were confined to grain harvesting, roads, too much sunshine, poor food, etc. but I remembered it everyday. At four-score years of age now, I thank you for giving me pictures of those empty fields and old bldgs.
Hi from Whidbey Island WA. I love the flying buttresses on the Trinity Lutheran church. Imagine Lewis and Clark making their way through the gap at Lombard. Passing through the I90 corridor recently I got off in Butte for the first time ever. It is amazing. Old town up on the hill by the mines is incredible. Unlike anywhere I’ve ever been. Like driving through a museum. They pulled billions out of that mountain and left behind one of the largest superfund clean up sites in the U.S.
Really enjoy your ghost town video tours, Chris. 👍Thanks for venturing below the Canadian border and videoing ghost towns in the US. We have lots of them, and I'm confident they'd love to be featured on your channel. 👍
The military brought me to Montana in the early 80s and I stayed for 24 years. I’ve explored many of these same old towns. I live back in northern Pennsylvania now. You’ve done an excellent job with this video. Subscribed 👍🏼
I enjoy touring ghost towns. I kind of got the bug from my late father who became quite an explorer. In 1972 we toured towns all over Montana and were surprised to find evidence of forgotten communities, almost in our own backyard. Today, watching from Coaldale, AB. Grew up on a cattle ranch along the border, west of Sweetgrass, MT...
I grew up in Nebraska but moved to Washington state as an adult. This video makes me feel really nostolgic for wide open spaces, tall grass pastures, and abandoned things in general. I love the mountains and forests but nothing will ever beat the plains for me.
Stopped at a bar in Ringling, MT thirty years ago. North of Livingston a couple dozen miles. The bar and post office were about all that was left. Jimmy Buffet wrote a song about the town. He used to play out in that area early in his career. The locals did not appreciate us playing the song on the bar's jukebox though. Much of Montana is rather arid, with blizzards in the winter. Both agriculture and ranching are dodgy, unless situated in the river valleys.
I grew up in Montana during the 1960's and 70's. Moved out to the West Coast for school, got married, and been here ever since. I loved Montana, and am perpetually Homesick. Watching videos like this one brings back a lot of good memories. I've traveled all over here in the States, but still think of Montana as Home, and some place I would love to return some day. Told my wife, when I'm gone, pack up my Ashes and take them to Montana to scatter me around. 6 inches across the Montana boarder will be fine. The West Coast has more beauty, and varieties of it, and yet, I do miss the Mountains of Montana. Go figure.
We live in White Sulphur Springs , Montana. Right in the center of the state, we have been to castle town and Lennup. Thanks for sharing you videos, we will try and. Visit more.
Thank you, Chris, for a beautiful video. One has to think of the people who lived there. So many individual fates which time has erased, but God remembers them all. Your ghost town videos remind us to number our days, so that we gain a heart of wisdom, as Psalm 90, verse 12 says.
Thank you so much for the cool videos.. when I want to go on a trip I watch your videos.. can't afford to travel anymore so this makes me feel like I'm there.. thank you again from my heart
I'm from Jersey in the first time I drove through Montana it was up at that part of the state. Back in 1972 it was so interest to see towns with a single digit population! I love watching this video, thank you very much
I get real heart broke seeing this video , I lived east of where your at , we didn't have indoor plumbing till the late 60s electricity in early 60s , my town is completely wiped out best years is when we had nothing but ourselves ❤
I very much like these videos and can't understand why big corporations can't make field offices out of some of those abandoned schools, especially the brick ones that only need some roof work or updating? It would be a lot cheaper than building a new industrial building from the ground up plus it would save a lot of old style architecture you don't see anymore like Deco or modern streamline. These areas would also become inhabited if people had to live nearby to go to work. Oh, I'm watching this from Amiens, France ...Bonjour et au revoir.
I live in Montana. Montana is just over 1000km wide. Your idea is great but nobody wants to drive 2 hours to get to work out in the middle of nowhere. We don't measure driving distance by miles here in Montana, we measure it in hours to get there. Then there's the minus 40 weather and 6 feet of snow in the winter, add in the occasional elk or Buffalo standing in the road. Even though our speed limit is 130km per hour on the main roads we just don't want to drive that far every day.
Hey Chris, love your videos. At the beginning of this month (Sept. 2024), we took US-2 west out of Wolf Point, then to Kalispell. I was able to stop at a lot of the abandoned areas you high lighted in your video of it. I wanted to thank you, we had a blast seeing these areas in person!
I am currently living in South Central Pennsylvania, but my family is from Scobey, Glasgow, Ft. Peck. I love your videos and enjoy seeing the landscape that my I love. I like sharing these with my husband so he can see where I am from. Thank you 🙂
I put your videos on with the intention of falling asleep because your voice is so calming and relaxing, but these videos are so interesting, well researched, and beautiful that I watch every minute of them- I definitely don’t fall asleep. Thank you for making these videos Chris! PS- I’m sad there wasn’t a cat in this video- I love the way you call them mayor. 🐈
I have ridden many of the roads by motorcycle throughout much of Montana, and passed many of these lonely, remote towns. I love the peacefulness you feel because of the sparse population extending into southwest Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan. Its great you add a little history to these cool places. BTW, I'm a hop skip, and a jump away in Medicine Hat, and finally made it to Shaunavon for the first time last year!
Lovin the content, my wife thought they were movie sets!! Just amazes me that there are so many abandoned towns in the US, even some larger towns and cities have an eerie feel as they all seem deserted, with no one around. Howdy from Melbourne, Australia!!
I Like Your Video Just Fine. I Hate To See Old Buildings Fall By The Wayside, Though. You're Lucky To Be Able To Travel To Those Places. Thank You. (Comment #419)
I enjoy your videos very much. Thank you for sharing them.I am from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I've never been further west than Colorado. So I can see other places and see what life was like back in the day.
It's amazing how quickly structures return to nature once they are abandoned. The schools, banks, and jails are the longest survivors. Most are too far gone now, but the brick schools would seem to be great subjects for restoration into homes. More drone video would be very welcome!
Yo Chris. My Father's side of the Family moved to Scobey, MT in the 1920's. Lovely to see the other areas of Montana and what is left. Thank You for Your documentation of what is left of a era. Best Regards jimmy
Hello! I am a retired teacher and I live near Sierre in Switzerland. I am fascinated by the huge "empty" spaces, the infinite horizons of the Montana and Saskatchewan that you make us discover. A good canadian friend's daughter is actually studiing in Regina at the university (she's very interested in native culture 😃). Thank you very much and always looking forward the next video 👍🏼
Yet again another outstanding video 📹. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!! I love and miss Montana very much. My dad was in the Air Force and we were stationed at Malstrom AFB in Great Falls, Montana from 1966 to 1970. I love seeing all these videos of the great outdoors and of all the old abandoned towns and buildings but it is also sad to see all the abandoned houses and schools 🏫. Thank you so sharing this with us ❤❤❤❤❤
Great work, Chris. I'm a 5th generation Montanan from Clancy, Montana. I love tagging along with you to these remote places. I'm a big fan of Everett Baker's photos, too.
Yeah, that’s the Outback of Montana for sure. I am from WV. Several years ago I took my young son (after landing at Billings) on the drive all around the state to visit the 15 dinosaur museums. It was quite an adventure and we saw many places like these. Good video.
Im watching from Germany but I have been living in Kentucky as well and I have seen buildings similar like those. This is very interesting to me. Thank you for sharing your work .
I love these videos. Every summer, I was a child, and we would leave Kahoka MO and go see my great grandma in Forsyth. I also remember the big mining machine that waddled like a duck. Thank you BTW - I live in Spokane WA now.
Thanks for all your time and efforts. I am fascinated by these types of videos. One can't help but imagine what those places were like when they were full of families, kids, workers, cops, doctors, etc. It's very poignant to think of what once was in those places.
Dear Chris, I follow your channel for a couple of years now and today i subscribed because you have a lot of amazing and intresting vid's in high quality. I live in the Netherlands and we don't have such town's here because our country is simply to small🙂 I keep wondering about the VS and Canada with all those ghost town's in remote and rural area's are left behind, you don't see that in our country so when i watch the counterpart its very amazing, each time i watched your vid's i watch again after because all of it and your comment, respect! With loves from Netherlands.
Palo Alto, California. Love the Western American landscape. Sure, I'd love to travel to all these places but the beauty of RUclips is that channels like these bring us right there. Thank you.
I'm watching from the UK. I have no links to Montana or the US, other than my Dad working in the US on an assignment from the UK. But I love watching these sorts of videos about the interior of the US and thinking back to all those people that worked so hard back in the old days and have left these places for us to see. Thanks for your videos I hope to see more - have liked and subbed!
What an incredibly beautiful video, so much land and history where no one lives anymore, the railways are still in use so if there is someone with a lot of money and buys all the land, grows corn, this person will become very rich, I am from Kerkdriel Holland and I have no knowledge of agriculture, just transport, I was an international driver for 36 years.💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻
Watched from North Carolina. Enjoy your videos Chris. Montana has some beautiful countryside. It’s a shame that some towns were dependent on a train line or a highway for survival. Keep up the good work!
I’m watching this from North Dakota. I was hoping to see Enid MT in your video but I know there are so many abandoned towns in MT. Really enjoyed this.
As luck would have it, they had the highway closed when I was there, had to follow a pilot vehicle thru town as they were paving the highway. I will go back one day.
Just remembered...A special Hello to Steve Quayle and Timothy Alberino in Bozeman.. they definitely have some very interesting and informative videos! Thanks again....
I appreciate you sharing details of each location and leaving the sound on and no music. I like hearing the wind and rustling of the trees. I wonder if there is any mining pollution or anything like that which might be some of the reason for one or more of the towns being empty
I am 91 - Was in the Air Force in Havre MT 1955 56 Got married - now in New York - went back many times with my Family loved Montana - still do Excellent presentation thankyou
thank you for your service
@@kimnguyen-lw7oj Thankyou for Your Consideration -
Thanks for watching!
Hope you are keeping well sir
Ty for your service.
My family farms south of Barber. That general store was the Franson and Morrison general store. It held the areas switchboard for telephones and was the main place of business for many people in the area. Originally the towns name was Shawmut, but when the town refused to sell property to the Milwaukee road for a depot, the Milwaukee moved its station stop a few miles west and took the name shawmut with it. Supposedly they renamed the town Barber because it had a “clean shave for a new name”. My grandfather told many stories of that store and growing up on the farm out south. He spent a few nights in the apartment above the store, while waiting for his folks to ride the wagon from the farm to retrieve him.
Wow thanks for the info. I did not know that about the town name.
I have a piece of the 406 by Ryegate! 25 beautiful acres
Watching from So Calif. I've been a ghost town buff since the 1950's. Am now 79 and too crippled to go exploring so I watch You Tube.
Hey thanks for watching!!
Have you been to ghost town Bodie, CA?
I'm 64 in Australia. Now crippled and can't walk after years of being active and good health. It sux and it's almost driving me crazy !
Thanks to the internet , we can see places that we have no chance of visiting. I'd go mad if I didn't have a way to spend a large amount of time surfing the internet and watching quality shows like this. Take care.
Are there villages in Australia?
@@charliepearce8767
@@charliepearce8767here are a couple of recommendations: "Desert Drifter", this man concentrates of remote sites in Southwest US desert areas where ancient native Americans lived. "Sidertack Adventures", this man shows sites of early white settlers in rugged, old Southwestern US locations. Both of these guys have well researched, well videoed and respectful reports just like this one.
Watching from Selangor, Malaysia.
Thank You for recording and putting up these videos. I'm 64 and not much of a traveller. Since it's very unlikely I'd go oversea, watching videos like this is the best way to discover various places in the world.
I am watching from Krasnoyarsk, Eastern Siberia. Cool video, it looks like a movie about cowboys and Indians. People who built it in the middle of nowhere were made from steel.
Wow, my good friend who now lives in Scotland is a fellow Siberian. She’s from Irkutsk
@@desdicadoric Irkutsk is even more distant from Moscow and Europe than Krasnoyarsk.
Does life feel free where you are? In terms of being so far away from big cities. @@Вадим-ц1х5я
I enjoyed this very much. We're from Miles City, MT and my Grandpa retired from the Milwaukee RR. I worked one summer on a crew tearing up the old railroad tracks. Sections of the old railroad bed are now part of a trail system you can walk all the way into western WA. The trail through the Cascades is spectacular and features a tunnel that is over 2- 1/4 miles long.
Thank you! I'd enjoy the train in the Cascades, I should visit.
I lived in Miles City when I was a kid, early 70s. We lived behind Buttreys on Winchester. Loved that time in my life.
Since you meet and talk with people in these towns, interview them , on camera, as they would add to your presentation.
My grandfather worked for the Milwaukee road in the 60’s
It is sad to see so many abandoned settlements. Landscape.. House.. Countryside. Here and in other similar places, people were once born. Lived.. they loved... Died. There is a sadness beyond time in these sequences. Thank you for your work and sharing your video footage. Greetings from Hungary 🇭🇺
Thank you!
Your country is where my great grandfather came from. Small world.
Both my Grandparent's from my Mom's side came from Austria Hungary... in 1902.. ended up here in Montana where I was born.. 😊
@@inhiscare1 I am very glad that a descendant of a Hungarian brother who has been torn away writes to me. Be lucky and healthy together with your family. ❤️🙂
@EnVagyok75 You expressed better the emotions I feel when watching these type of videos.
I'm from Montana with family all over the state, and I've never heard of a lot of the places you visit. That's how big Montana is. Love your videos.
It's HUUUUUGGEE! Thank you!
Love these videos 😍 in in broadus Mt
I lived there until 2016. I have heard of many of these because my dad bought me the Ghost Towns of Montana book. we used to fish at a lot of places where logging camps and mining towns were. One was Black Pine and one was Combination. I grew up in Hall and my grandparents lived in Maxville.
Hello Chris, as I've mentioned, I'm from little Wilbur Wa. Farming, Still holding up. When I hear your footsteps in the gravel, I am reminded of the years we walked the gravel lane, home from the bus or across the lot to our little park. The sound of your footsteps is precious to me. I'm reminded of when we could meander everywhere in relative safety. Also, the sound of walking in the grasses reminds me of everyday travel as a kid. The buildings you found, wow!! Even the ones in ruin are worth of my admiration for how long they sheltered someone with very little protection themselves. Love the way you clipped your film for our easy viewing. Much love to you❤, Patricia 1951
@@patriciapiper6294 also the color tones and then the sounds of the crickets in the background… Wow!
@robfelt9283 Yes Rob, the sounds of grasshoppers and crickets in the yellowish dry grasses!!! Talking to each other as we move through.🇺🇲
@@patriciapiper6294 growing up in rural Northern Minnesota and working putting up here for farmers in the summer season is some thing I cherish and will never forget. Plenty of small towns in the area at the time. They weren’t abandoned as yet, but they never were really thriving. Still, very special to, my memories.
@robfelt9283 being part of summer harvest. We'll, you can't beat it!! It's huge. You must be rough and ready to work with bruses sometimes but the farm work proves your worth every day!!👍🇺🇲
Wow thank you so much!!!
I grew up on a farm south of Tioga, ND. We went across the border to Canada to fish several times. When I graduated from high school in 1957 I went to California for college, first in the South Bay area where I attended college at Northrop Aeronautical Institute and El Camino College, then graduating from Cal Berkeley in 1962. After completing a masters degree in 1963, I took a job in Newport Beach, then Santa Barbara where I started my own business. I retired to Las Vegas in 1998, where I still reside. I've been enjoying your videos along our northern border in Canada and the US. Keep up the good work!
Wow thank you! Hope you enjoyed your visit in Canada!
@@attrell I worked in Watford City for three winters at end of oil boom aprox. 10 years ago loved the area . Back in Eastern Washington
From Williston ND
Watching from Romania.There is never a too long video when it comes to abandoned places.
Thank you!
How happy were you when the russians abandoned communism and your country? Live long and prosper my free friend
Spot on !👍 😊
@@nozzledrich Yes, they finally got out of that yoke of communism.
Watching from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Great video, very interesting places in the American outback. Thank you!
Some of those abandoned buildings look surreal. I had forgotten how beautiful those large empty spaces are up there! Great camera work.
Glad you enjoyed
I just found your channel and I've enjoyed watching a few of your tours. I'm in N. Utah and we have several ghost towns I've explored but these are mostly intact and more derelict than completely lost to time. Perhaps some will be resettled or restored one day. Thanks and keep em coming.
Watching from New Orleans. My wife’s father was chief of the rail operations In Harlowton, MT up until the Milwaukee went bankrupt in 1980. We recently went back there for my wife’s 50th HS reunion. We flew to Billings and rented a vehicle, and drove through a couple of these places on the way to Harlowton. This past week we attended my 50th HS reunion in Sioux City, Iowa…..very much a boom town! Growing by leaps and bounds since I left there many years ago!
Sounds like a nice trip!
My mother grew up in Harlo. Her Dad and uncles worked for the Milwaukee.
You are in New Orleans....with my people
I was born & raised in Houma....all my family is from there.
My aunt & uncle might not be far from you.....they are in Bucktown, New Orleans
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Watching from West Yorkshire, England. I lived in Basin, MT in the late 1990s. I really miss the people and small communities of Montana.
Thanks for watching!
I was able to visit Castle Town in 1957, when I was seven . I still remember the town. It was completely abandoned even then. You could see the whole town. The buildings and houses were empty but sturdy. I think a person could easily have just picked any house and been able to live in it. Compleyely off grid, but live in it. Sad to see it in ruins.
Wow that must have been so cool to explore in 1957!
Ghost towns are so creepy. On my grandfather's farm, there was an abandoned village on the property, it even had a church. The houses were in perfect condition, except for a thick layer of dust inside. I remember exploring this village, and I remember the strange, unsettling feeling that something wasn't right. I never asked my grandfather about the history of the village. Somehow I felt like I shouldn't ask when I was a kid.
I used to work right outside ingomar on some oil wells. It really is in the middle of nowhere. The jersey Lilly made some awesome bacon cheeseburgers.
lived in cut bank to age 5 or 6. It was cold in my memory. Moved to Milwakee with my mother in 1963 and lived here ever since. thanks for the video tour. Maybe I'll go visit some day whil I still can
My wife was born on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Browning Montana just north east of cut bank. Beautiful country but lots of poverty
Do you ever go to Leon’s Frozen Custard on south 27th?
@@josephnash3015 never have eaten in Cutbank
@@11Bravo84 sorry, my reply was meant for @Jared_Albert since he lives in Milwaukee.
In Ingomar, MT the school yard has an original Jungle-gym. It was designed to teach children about the fourth dimension. I saw it on a Tom Scot Video.
I was last in Montana in 1961 (summer) as a "wheatie." A high-school 11th grader, working the wheat harvest, from Texas, thru OK, KS, NE, the Dakotas and Montana.- I remember places in Montana; Vida, Wolf Point, and Four Buttes. That summer was my high-school adventure. My experiences were confined to grain harvesting, roads, too much sunshine, poor food, etc. but I remembered it everyday. At four-score years of age now, I thank you for giving me pictures of those empty fields and old bldgs.
Hi from Whidbey Island WA.
I love the flying buttresses on the Trinity Lutheran church.
Imagine Lewis and Clark making their way through the gap at Lombard.
Passing through the I90 corridor recently I got off in Butte for the first time ever. It is amazing. Old town up on the hill by the mines is incredible.
Unlike anywhere I’ve ever been. Like driving through a museum. They pulled billions out of that mountain and left behind one of the largest superfund clean up sites in the U.S.
Really enjoy your ghost town video tours, Chris. 👍Thanks for venturing below the Canadian border and videoing ghost towns in the US. We have lots of them, and I'm confident they'd love to be featured on your channel. 👍
Wow thank you!
The military brought me to Montana in the early 80s and I stayed for 24 years. I’ve explored many of these same old towns. I live back in northern Pennsylvania now. You’ve done an excellent job with this video. Subscribed 👍🏼
Wow thank you!
I enjoy touring ghost towns. I kind of got the bug from my late father who became quite an explorer. In 1972 we toured towns all over Montana and were surprised to find evidence of forgotten communities, almost in our own backyard. Today, watching from Coaldale, AB. Grew up on a cattle ranch along the border, west of Sweetgrass, MT...
Hi George, Craig Blackmer here, east of Coutts/Sweetgrass, still on the family homestead, established in 1908
Thanks for watching!
I grew up in Nebraska but moved to Washington state as an adult. This video makes me feel really nostolgic for wide open spaces, tall grass pastures, and abandoned things in general. I love the mountains and forests but nothing will ever beat the plains for me.
Thanks for watching!
Watching from Seacoast New Hampshire. Love your videos thanks for sharing
Recognized Carlyle immediately, grew up in the area and have driven by there tons of times
I enjoyed that town a lot!
Thank you for posting this, I've been to a few of these old towns I have lived in Eastern Montana for MANY Many years. nice to see some of them again.
Thanks for watching!
Watching from Just south of you in Cheyenne, WY. Great video!
Awesome! Thank you!
Stopped at a bar in Ringling, MT thirty years ago. North of Livingston a couple dozen miles. The bar and post office were about all that was left. Jimmy Buffet wrote a song about the town. He used to play out in that area early in his career. The locals did not appreciate us playing the song on the bar's jukebox though. Much of Montana is rather arid, with blizzards in the winter. Both agriculture and ranching are dodgy, unless situated in the river valleys.
I never been there, I will go next time!
I grew up in Montana during the 1960's and 70's. Moved out to the West Coast for school, got married, and been here ever since.
I loved Montana, and am perpetually Homesick. Watching videos like this one brings back a lot of good memories.
I've traveled all over here in the States, but still think of Montana as Home, and some place I would love to return some day.
Told my wife, when I'm gone, pack up my Ashes and take them to Montana to scatter me around. 6 inches across the Montana boarder will be fine.
The West Coast has more beauty, and varieties of it, and yet, I do miss the Mountains of Montana. Go figure.
I was born in Wyoming and feel exactly the same.
Yeah Montana is special that way
We live in White Sulphur Springs , Montana. Right in the center of the state, we have been to castle town and Lennup. Thanks for sharing you videos, we will try and. Visit more.
Thanks for watching!
From Hillmorton England great presentation and respect for peoples property.
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Watching from Berlin, Germany Loving these Videos
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Thank you, Chris, for a beautiful video. One has to think of the people who lived there. So many individual fates which time has erased, but God remembers them all. Your ghost town videos remind us to number our days, so that we gain a heart of wisdom, as Psalm 90, verse 12 says.
Well said!
Love all your videos Chris, they can never be too long!..Manitoba
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Watching from Lewistown Montana ! Love the videos.
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Watching from Calgary, really like your videos. There’s a real sense of history and connection to the land, great scenery too.
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I think you do such a fine job with your filming and narrating.
Yes, sir completely agree with you.
Wow thank you!!!
Thank you so much for the cool videos.. when I want to go on a trip I watch your videos.. can't afford to travel anymore so this makes me feel like I'm there.. thank you again from my heart
Wow thank you so much!!!
It's so easy to make such videos boring, but you did a great job keeping it entertaining
Wow thank you!!
I'm from Jersey in the first time I drove through Montana it was up at that part of the state. Back in 1972 it was so interest to see towns with a single digit population! I love watching this video, thank you very much
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This would make one heck of a 🏫 👩🏼🏫 🎒 field trip, wouldn't it 🤗
I get real heart broke seeing this video , I lived east of where your at , we didn't have indoor plumbing till the late 60s electricity in early 60s , my town is completely wiped out best years is when we had nothing but ourselves ❤
Oh wow!
I very much like these videos and can't understand why big corporations can't make field offices out of some of those abandoned schools, especially the brick ones that only need some roof work or updating? It would be a lot cheaper than building a new industrial building from the ground up plus it would save a lot of old style architecture you don't see anymore like Deco or modern streamline. These areas would also become inhabited if people had to live nearby to go to work. Oh, I'm watching this from Amiens, France ...Bonjour et au revoir.
Smart. I like your idea
because those big corporations are too busy making China wealthy.
I live in Montana. Montana is just over 1000km wide. Your idea is great but nobody wants to drive 2 hours to get to work out in the middle of nowhere. We don't measure driving distance by miles here in Montana, we measure it in hours to get there. Then there's the minus 40 weather and 6 feet of snow in the winter, add in the occasional elk or Buffalo standing in the road. Even though our speed limit is 130km per hour on the main roads we just don't want to drive that far every day.
Answer ,super highways bypass the local towns
That would be a good idea. But winters are especially cold. But Montana is soooo worth it!
Hey Chris, love your videos. At the beginning of this month (Sept. 2024), we took US-2 west out of Wolf Point, then to Kalispell. I was able to stop at a lot of the abandoned areas you high lighted in your video of it. I wanted to thank you, we had a blast seeing these areas in person!
Oh wow thanks for letting me know. I am so glad you enjoyed your trip!!
My uncle was originally from South Dakota. He moved to Culbertson MT where he lived until he passed away.
I am currently living in South Central Pennsylvania, but my family is from Scobey, Glasgow, Ft. Peck. I love your videos and enjoy seeing the landscape that my I love. I like sharing these with my husband so he can see where I am from. Thank you 🙂
Wow thank you!
The spirit of Wild West.
I put your videos on with the intention of falling asleep because your voice is so calming and relaxing, but these videos are so interesting, well researched, and beautiful that I watch every minute of them- I definitely don’t fall asleep. Thank you for making these videos Chris! PS- I’m sad there wasn’t a cat in this video- I love the way you call them mayor. 🐈
Ha ha thank you so much! I am always looking for the Mayor!
I have ridden many of the roads by motorcycle throughout much of Montana, and passed many of these lonely, remote towns. I love the peacefulness you feel because of the sparse population extending into southwest Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan. Its great you add a little history to these cool places. BTW, I'm a hop skip, and a jump away in Medicine Hat, and finally made it to Shaunavon for the first time last year!
Hope you enjoyed your trip!
I appreciate your videos, I have been to a few of these old towns, I live on a farm close to Coutts Alberta / Sweetgrass Montana
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Lovin the content, my wife thought they were movie sets!! Just amazes me that there are so many abandoned towns in the US, even some larger towns and cities have an eerie feel as they all seem deserted, with no one around. Howdy from Melbourne, Australia!!
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I Like Your Video Just Fine. I Hate To See Old Buildings Fall By The Wayside, Though. You're Lucky To Be Able To Travel To Those Places. Thank You. (Comment #419)
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A great video Chris, thanks for sharing your journey with us!
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8:04 is a tender for a steam locomotive. It held the coal to stoke the fire. Nice content.
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Thank you for respecting private property, that's a more than welcome change from every other youtube guy putting up such videos.
I enjoy your videos very much. Thank you for sharing them.I am from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I've never been further west than Colorado. So I can see other places and see what life was like back in the day.
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Santa Claus Indiana
Yes that is a real town
Enjoying your video
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The "Engine" you pointed out , was, in fact, the tender for a steam locomotive. Nice pictures...I have watched ALL of your expeditions. Nice work.
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Watching from the moon. Everything has long since been abandoned here
❤ the remnants of times gone by. Thanks.
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It's amazing how quickly structures return to nature once they are abandoned. The schools, banks, and jails are the longest survivors. Most are too far gone now, but the brick schools would seem to be great subjects for restoration into homes. More drone video would be very welcome!
Thanks for watching! I agree!
Yo Chris. My Father's side of the Family moved to Scobey, MT in the 1920's. Lovely to see the other areas of Montana and what is left. Thank You for Your documentation of what is left of a era. Best Regards jimmy
Thanks Jimmy!
North Pole Alaska but grew up in turner mt.
Oh wow that is just south of where I live in Shaunavon.
@attrell still have a brother farming there.
Hello! I am a retired teacher and I live near Sierre in Switzerland. I am fascinated by the huge "empty" spaces, the infinite horizons of the Montana and Saskatchewan that you make us discover. A good canadian friend's daughter is actually studiing in Regina at the university (she's very interested in native culture 😃). Thank you very much and always looking forward the next video 👍🏼
If Commie cackles and Tampon Tim win in November, all of Montana will look like this!
Yet again another outstanding video 📹. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!! I love and miss Montana very much. My dad was in the Air Force and we were stationed at Malstrom AFB in Great Falls, Montana from 1966 to 1970. I love seeing all these videos of the great outdoors and of all the old abandoned towns and buildings but it is also sad to see all the abandoned houses and schools 🏫. Thank you so sharing this with us ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much!!
I really enjoy the feeling that we are traveling alongside you as you visit the locations and share the stories.
Wow thank you!
Joe Montana graduated from Notre Dame with Dan 'Rudy' Rudiker...ever see the movie with Sean Astin.... Thanks for yer video and the memories.
thank you for another great watch. you are always depicting these places respectful manner.
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Great ghost town video Chris. Certainly like the history of these abandoned places. 😊😊
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@@attrell you're welcome 😊 👏
Great video, thank you for showing us all those amazing and Beautiful places
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Great work, Chris. I'm a 5th generation Montanan from Clancy, Montana. I love tagging along with you to these remote places. I'm a big fan of Everett Baker's photos, too.
Very cool! I am impressed you are aware of Mr Baker. He did great work :)
Yeah, that’s the Outback of Montana for sure. I am from WV. Several years ago I took my young son (after landing at Billings) on the drive all around the state to visit the 15 dinosaur museums. It was quite an adventure and we saw many places like these. Good video.
Thanks for watching! I didn't know there was 15 dino museums! WOW!
Greetings from Ljungby in Sweden.
It's so Nice too look at your films.
I hope you keep on make more of these films.
Thank You Chris
Thanks! I will :)
Im watching from Germany but I have been living in Kentucky as well and I have seen buildings similar like those. This is very interesting to me. Thank you for sharing your work .
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I am watching from New Hampshire. I love US History. Thank you for preserving these sites in video form. ☺ 🇺🇸
I love these videos. Every summer, I was a child, and we would leave Kahoka MO and go see my great grandma in Forsyth. I also remember the big mining machine that waddled like a duck. Thank you
BTW - I live in Spokane WA now.
I’m watching this episode from Rayong, Thailand. Thanks for showing us all of these ghost towns which we would otherwise never get to see.
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Today, September 30, Monday afternoon, with coffee in hand, I had a good time watching your video. Joseph, Czech Republic.
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I'm watching from Sydney Australia. Great video and commentary. Loved this.
THank you!
Thanks for all your time and efforts. I am fascinated by these types of videos. One can't help but imagine what those places were like when they were full of families, kids, workers, cops, doctors, etc. It's very poignant to think of what once was in those places.
Wow thank you so much, i really appreciate that!
Hi I'm from Liverpool, England. Love the video.
Dear Chris,
I follow your channel for a couple of years now and today i subscribed because you have a lot of amazing and intresting vid's in high quality.
I live in the Netherlands and we don't have such town's here because our country is simply to small🙂 I keep wondering about the VS and Canada with all those ghost town's in remote and rural area's are left behind, you don't see that in our country so when i watch the counterpart its very amazing, each time i watched your vid's i watch again after because all of it and your comment, respect!
With loves from Netherlands.
Thanks for watching! The railroads being abandoned and people driving in larger cities sure changed the fortunes of a lot of these small towns.
Palo Alto, California. Love the Western American landscape. Sure, I'd love to travel to all these places but the beauty of RUclips is that channels like these bring us right there. Thank you.
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I'm watching from the UK. I have no links to Montana or the US, other than my Dad working in the US on an assignment from the UK. But I love watching these sorts of videos about the interior of the US and thinking back to all those people that worked so hard back in the old days and have left these places for us to see. Thanks for your videos I hope to see more - have liked and subbed!
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Thank you so much for posting this video. I sincerely enjoyed watching it.
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What an incredibly beautiful video, so much land and history where no one lives anymore, the railways are still in use so if there is someone with a lot of money and buys all the land, grows corn, this person will become very rich, I am from Kerkdriel Holland and I have no knowledge of agriculture, just transport, I was an international driver for 36 years.💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻
Just ran across this video I am now subscribed and will watch more. I am watching from Alford Florida. Thanks for the videos
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Watched from North Carolina. Enjoy your videos Chris. Montana has some beautiful countryside. It’s a shame that some towns were dependent on a train line or a highway for survival. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!!!
I’m watching this from North Dakota. I was hoping to see Enid MT in your video but I know there are so many abandoned towns in MT. Really enjoyed this.
As luck would have it, they had the highway closed when I was there, had to follow a pilot vehicle thru town as they were paving the highway. I will go back one day.
Just remembered...A special Hello to Steve Quayle and Timothy Alberino in Bozeman..
they definitely have some very interesting and informative videos! Thanks again....
Watching from Miles City, MT. It's always nice seeing others take a look into my lesser-known neck of the woods.
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I appreciate you sharing details of each location and leaving the sound on and no music. I like hearing the wind and rustling of the trees.
I wonder if there is any mining pollution or anything like that which might be some of the reason for one or more of the towns being empty
Thanks for watching. That could be true yes.
I live in SC, USA. I really enjoy these videos with a touch of sadness thinking of the children who once played in the yards and the Xmas decorations.
Hello there! Yes me too
Im from Circle Montana, living outside of Boise Id. for most my life. Family still there & visit often. Still call Montana home.
Loved the video❤️
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a new subscriber here, watching from Glasgow, Scotland. love your videos. Keep them coming.
Thank you!