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Montana PBS Producer Gus Chambers documents with archeologist Erika Karuzas and volunteer Steve Waylet as they search for the Taft cemetery near the Idaho-Montana border. (Kathleen Woodford/Mineral Independent)

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Taft mountains hold 'secret' of missing cemetery
August 22, 2018 4 a.m.

Taft mountains hold 'secret' of missing cemetery

The mountains surrounding the legendary saloon town of Taft, Mont., holds a silent grip on its deceased residents. As the massive fires of 1910 swept through the canyons of Mineral County, the blaze took the town with it, including the cemetery. A cemetery with wooden markers which turned to ash and disappeared. Now, nearly 110 years later, the search is on to find the 72 buried souls lost to a century of forest growth and erosion.