Guard Dogs and Dynamite: Convict Labor on the Yellowstone Trail, 1913–1917

Montana’s first highways were built by men from the Montana State Prison, and much of their work was concentrated on one of the country’s first interstate highways, the Yellowstone Trail. Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline tells the story of prison labor on the Yellowstone Trail in Park County, one of the last places where you can see the efforts of Montana’s first highwaymen