Laying railroad bed

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This file appears in: Taft: The Wickedest City in America

Workers like these men from Quigley, Montana, were responsible for laying down tracks for rail companies.

Image courtesy of the Montana State Historical Society

This file appears in: Taft: The Wickedest City in America

By Thomas Breysse
By the early 1900s, the rough and tumble frontier towns of America were dying off, slowly becoming gentrified and developed into respectable settlements. Taft, Montana was one town that wasn't going…