Livingston

In January 1883, barely a month after the Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR ) finished laying tracks to the last crossing of the Yellowstone River, Minnesota's Winona Daily Republican proclaimed Livingston as the future great city of the Yellowstone. With the arrival of the NPRR in 1882, the town boomed as it became the division headquarters for the railroad. Its future secured by the largest machine shops and roundhouse west of Minnesota, Livingston rapidly grew from frontier town to progres...