Miles and Miles of Miles City
Where Montana kicks up its Western heritage every May.
By: Johnny D. Boggs 04/01/2009
Temperance? Montana? I think not! The fact that Miles City did things the Montana way, and not the Nelson A. Miles way, is easily verified today.
You’ll find Lucky Lil’s, the Silver Star, the Bison Bar, Blue Moon Casino and the Olive Hotel lounge. Of course, you gotta like the Cattle-Ac, which advertises its casino in the “private entrance located behind the saloon.”
To really see Miles City, stagger inside the dean of cowboy watering holes and belly up to the bar. I’m talking about the Montana Bar. It dates to 1893, although it was expanded and remodeled in 1914. The historic bar is as authentic as the pressed-tin ceiling and the bullet hole by the door.
I ask the bartender how many gallons of beer they go through during the Bucking Horse Sale.
“Oh, gosh,” he says. “Five thousand?”
My kind of town.
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