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This town began as an overnight stop on the stage route from Lewistown to Great Falls. It later became a railroad stop when the Great Northern was built from Billings to Great Falls. This area at the turn of the century was primarily a sheep ranching area dominated by the J. B. Long Sheep Company. Homesteaders, mainly Finnish, flooded the area lured here by offers of free land. The town got its name from a nearby bubbling mud springs. The geysers were most active during the dry years of the 1930s, but dried up when the rains returned and never came back.
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