Camas Hot Springs at Hot Springs Montana

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Camas Hot Springs at Hot Springs Montana
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Camas Hot Springs at Hot Springs Montana

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A SHORT HISTORY OF HOT SPRINGS MONTANA The water was hot and Native Americans lived in tipis, dug camas root, winter-camped and bathed in the Camas Hot Springs. In 1908, the Flathead Reservation was opened to homesteading. Hot Springs was described as a village of tents. Buffalo were as plentiful as deer and even then, visitors came to the hot springs for a 'course of healing baths.' Homesteader's wives would bring their laundry to the springs and make a day of working and visiting. In 1908, Miss Myrtle Cole, a teacher from Nebraska met and married Telespore DeMers, a rancher and owner of the DeMers Hotel. In 1910, they dedicated the land, platted and subdivided the lots into the town of Pinesville, which is the town of Hot Springs today. HOME OF THE HEALING WATERS The town of Camas was next to Hot Springs. All that is left of Camas today is the crumbling old Post Office and the repair garage. In 1948, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes built a modern style mineral water bathhouse with funds received from operation of the Kerr Dam on the reservation as well as from their own timber sales. The town was in its hey day in the 1950s with over a thousand residents and several large hotels. The town declined with waning interest in 'taking the cure,' but has been revitalized since the early 90s when young and old rediscovered the 'home of the healing waters.'

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