1969 Map of Bear Canyon

About this map

Custer National Forest anchors this borderland landscape, where the high ridges of southern Montana drop toward the Wyoming line. The terrain is defined by dramatic erosional features like Bear Canyon and King Canyon, which cut through a complex network of dry coulees and seasonal drainages such as Cottonwood Creek and Piney Creek. Human presence here is tied largely to the livestock and resource extraction industries of the late 1960s, evidenced by the Stockman Trail and numerous scattered Prospects.