Last chance bears
Whilst wandering in the Last Chance Gulch of Helena, Montana, Karen encountered this rather cute Bear About Town.
The gulch is named so because 4 miners struck it rich here on their "last chance" dig on the way home from a failed prospecting trip. The rest, as they say, is history - Last Chance Gulch is a historic pedestrian street and Helena is now the state capital.
Not always the case though, as on the way here, we detoured through Marysville. In its' heyday, it had 27 saloons and was "going to absorb Helena as a suburb"... Sadly the gold ran out, the railway left and now its a ghost town with a few families left.
Cheers
Nick
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