When President Taft rolled into Billings in 1911, he called it “the center of the development of the arid west” — and he wasn’t wrong. Thousands of homesteaders, federal irrigation canals, and railroad money had turned a dusty railroad stop into a regional powerhouse. But the boom had a dark side nobody wanted to see.

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