Rural Montana entrepreneur: Here you make your own job

A crumbling ruin of a bank built in 1909 has been reborn as Pony Expressions https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pony-Expressions-LLC/180741248633020 , with ladies fashion, embroidery, screen printing, gifts and a coffee shop.

"We tried to keep the building as original as we could," owner Holly Stoltz said. "Twenty years it was boarded up."

The renovation began in 2006, with the business opening on Valier’s Montana Street in 2009.

"The basement had four feet of water. The floors were ruined; the roof leaked," Stoltz said. "We had to tear up all the original floors, but we found materials to put back in."

Stoltz also owns the Choteau Trading Post https://www.facebook.com/pages/Choteau-Trading-Post/177781642257203 and Windy Creek Casuals https://www.facebook.com/pages/Windy-Creek-Casuals/152158201606367 in Cut Bank and rotates merchandise among the stores.

Kristen Inbody, [email protected]

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