| 词条 | Taft, Montana |
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|USA West |relief = 1 |label = Taft |lat = 47.419 |long = -115.602 |caption = Location in the western United States |marksize = 6 |float = |background = |width = 240 }}{{Location map |USA Montana |relief = 1 |label = Taft |position = bottom |lat = 47.419 |long = -115.602 |caption = Location in Montana, near Idaho border |marksize = 6 |float = |background = |width = 220 }} Taft is a ghost town in the western United States in Mineral County, Montana. Located in the Bitterroot Range near the Idaho border along the route of the Mullan Road, it was a thriving railroad town c. 1908, named after William H. Taft (before he was elected president in 1908) after he visited the nameless town in 1907. The town was founded when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("The Milwaukee Road") built its Pacific Coast expansion and had to bore a {{nowrap|{{convert|1.66|mi|adj=on}}}} tunnel through the mountains near its site.[1] Tunnel #20 on the railroad, it is known as St. Paul Pass Tunnel or Taft Tunnel; its East Portal is {{convert|2|mi|0|spell=in}} southwest at approximately {{convert|4150|ft}} above sea level and heads southwest into Idaho.[2] In its earliest years the town of mostly men working for the railroad, mining or forest industries was notorious for drinking, gambling, a murder rate higher than Chicago, and a reputed "five prostitutes for every man", one reporter described it as "the wickedest city in America." [3] Taft burned to the ground {{Time ago|1910}} in 1910 on August 20, during "The Big Burn" - a giant forest wildfire fed by Palouser winds, and was not rebuilt.[3] (see "The Big Burn" by Timothy Egan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2009.) Today on Interstate 90 the site is noted by exit 5, marked "Taft." The area hosts a maintenance yard for the Montana Department of Transportation, access to the Route of the Hiawatha rail trail,[2] and access to St. Regis (Sohon) / Mullan Pass vía Randolph Creek Road, which heads north and west from I-90. References1. ^Description of Taft in 1939 from MTlinks.com {{Mineral County, Montana}}{{coord|47.419|N|115.602|W|type:city_region:US-MT|display=title}}2. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.ridethehiawatha.com/trail-maps |work=Route of the Hiawatha |title=Trail map |accessdate=July 10, 2017}} 3. ^1 {{cite web |title=The Big Burn-Transcript |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/burn/ |website=American Experience |publisher=PBS |accessdate=23 January 2019 |date=3 February 2015}} 2 : Ghost towns in Montana|Geography of Mineral County, Montana |
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