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See livestock tromp down a dirt-covered Central Avenue. Witness massive downtown office buildings in ruins from raging fires. Spy the man billed as the world’s fastest gunslinger in action. Feast your eyes on a pictorial history of Great Falls during its early years, 1884 to 1939. This was a burgeoning city, with exuberant dance-hall girls and breweries overflowing with beer. At the same time, regal churches graced street corners, and street cars rumbled noisily through the city, powered by electricity from new dams blocking the surging Missouri River. Many of the photographs in this rare pictorial history book were supplied by northcentral Montana residents. Other fetching photos were plucked from the archives of the History Museum and the Great Falls Tribune. Enjoy this look back at a great city.