Basin is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana, United States. It lies approximately 10 miles southeast of the Continental Divide in a high narrow canyon
Basin Street
Gold and quartz specimen from the Jib Mine in Basin
Ruins of the Glass brothers' smelter in Basin (2007)
Former entrance to the Hope-Katy mine complex (2007)
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the
Assiniboine family, Montana, 1890–91
Montana Territory in 1865
Chief Joseph and Col. John Gibbon met again on the Big Hole Battlefield site in 1889.
Buffalo Soldiers, Ft. Keogh, Montana, 1890. The nickname was given to the "Black Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought.