This Vs That - Auctions Shipping to Big Timber, MT

It was the kind of town where the men who built the West - the railroad workers, ranch hands, and miners - had started to fade, replaced by service workers and fly-fishing operators.

Then, as metals prices began to climb five years ago, mining made a comeback to this little brick city on the Yellowstone River, contributing to the virtually full employment here and a sense of achieving a sustainable economy.

"One of the [shift workers] I worked with said once to me: 'Your grandchildren are going to be working in this mine,' " recalls Ben Tyner, until recently a worker at the nearby Stillwater Mine.

Tom Richmond refers to the Crazy Mountain Basin as a "nonproducing basin." But millions of dollars were spent this year with the hopes of proving him wrong.

STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF THE BILLINGS REGION THIS EVENING, AND WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT.

Strong winds blowing fresh powdery snow created blizzard conditions along Interstate 90 from Livingston to Big Timber on Saturday, and prompted the Montana Department of Transportation to close portions of the ...