Stuart Englert Corrie and Kevin Habib, of Cummings, Ga., look for "color" while panning with son Jack at the oldest operating gold mine east of the Mississippi.
The gold rush town of Bannack became Montana's first capital in 1864, the year Montana became a territory. By 1865, gold strikes elsewhere had all but emptied the town of about 3,000, and the territorial capital moved to Virginia City (pop. 130). Today, Bannack is a ghost town and state park.
