Billings, Montana, which lies on the west bank of the Yellowstone River, came into being when the Northern Pacific Railroad refused to pay the exorbitant land prices asked by nearby Coulson. So, in the early 1880s, emissary's of the railroad laid out the town of Billings which grew steadily and healthily in spite of such early and undesirable residents as Baxter Frayley and Woody McClune...