(BLAINE COUNTY, Mont.) – The Ervin Homestead/Gist Bottom Historic District lies within the vast and isolated, but breathtakingly beautiful Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument.
In 1997 Zane Fulbright was sent on a work detail from the U.S. Forest Service to record homesteads within the Bureau of Land Management Upper Missouri National Wild & Scenic River area.
Twenty years later, on Jan. 20, 2017, he accepted the certificate recognizing the Ervin Homestead/Gist Bottom Historic District's listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
"This has been a long time coming," said Fulb...