Annual Bannack Days To Be Held July 18-19

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The 1998 Bannack Days celebration will be held Saturday and Sunday, July 18-19, at Bannack State Park located 22 miles southwest of Dillon. "Bannack Days is a traditional Montana pioneer celebration," said Cindy Staszak, Bannack State Park Manager. "We always depend on volunteers to help run Bannack Days, and it’s not too late to sign up." Activities include pioneer skill demonstrations, old-time music and food, old-fashioned melodramas and skits, wagon rides, gold panning, dancing, demonstrations by mountain men and more. The cost is $4 per vehicle for entrance into Bannack State Park, or free entrance with possession of a Montana State Parks Passport. Bannack was the site of the first major gold discovery in Montana in 1862. It became Montana’s first territorial capital in 1864, and was home to a gang of infamous road agents, led by Sheriff Henry Plummer, and the vigilantes who enacted frontier justice on the gang. For more information on Bannack Days, call 834-3413.