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>>>>Lately the best weekends are the ones with absolutely no tv, no cell phone, and no computer. They are becoming more frequent as I get older. The best week to 10 days of the year as far as detachment are the ones I spend in a wilderness area in Colorado every fall hunting. we pack in what we can carry. If I could I would relish a move to wilderness Alaska or Montana (if the wife would go for it) and come to town once a month if that much.
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>>>I would highly recommend Alaska. Montana has nothing going for it. Nada. Zilch. :)
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>>I seem to remember both Bozeman and Helena had some really impressive 19th and early 20th buildings - copper baron mansions etc.
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>The "Mansion District" in Helena is pretty impressive for a city of this size. They were built with gold/silver money. The copper barons were located in Butte/Anaconda. In the late 1880s Helena claimed it more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world.
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http://www.historicamerica.net/montanahelena.htmlAh, forgot Butte (that is what I was trying to thing of when I said Bozeman) I seem to remember there there were a lot of stone mansions like the ones the oil and steel millionaires were building about that time here in Cleveland.
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