Backroads, Montana

Forgotten towns, railroad towns, old gold mine towns, the backroads of Montana are full of boom and bust cycles of historic old towns and remnants of the past.

In this photographic essay, fine art photographer Edward M. Fielding documents some of the old treasures hidden along Montana’s lesser-known corners beyond the interstates on to the backroads of Montana places where in the past only horseback or trains reached to bring cattle, grain, and precious metals to the cities on the coasts and beyond.