Bannack, Montana’s first (0) _____territorial_____ capital was the site of (43)____many______ (much) “firsts” in the state’s history. Bannack had the (44)______first____ (one) jail, hotel, chartered Masonic Lodge, hard rock mine, (45) ___electric_______ (electricity) gold dredge, quarts stamp mill, and (46) ____commercial______ (commerce) sawmill.

The (47) ___most famous_______ (famous) Sheriff of Bannack, Henry Plummer, was (48) ____secretly______ (secret) the leader of a gang of thieves, murderers and robbers called “The Innocents”. This gang is said to have (49) ____murdered______ (murder) over 102 men and robbed (50) ____countless______ (count) others. A group of Vigilantes hanged Henry Plummer and many of his gang on the very gallows that Plummer built to hang horse thieves.  

Over 50 (51) ____buildings______ (build) remain at Bannack today, each one with a story to tell, from tumble-down, one-room bachelor cabins to the Hotel Meade.  

The diggings are quiet now, but the streets still ring with the footsteps of those seeking the rich lode of Western history that Bannock hoards like the gold once hidden in its hills. A monument frozen in time of modern-day is for (52) ______the visitor____ (visit) to discover and enjoy.