Taft, Montana

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

This image of Taft, taken outside the Swanson Bros. Saloon, shows the town before the fire.

Image courtesy of the University of Monana

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…