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Arrival Of 2 New Businesses Means There’s More Than A Bar In Tiny Pony, Montana
The remote former mining town of Pony, Montana, went bust more than 100 years ago. But the recent arrival of two new businesses downtown, this picturesque outpost at the foot of the Tobacco Root Mountains is experiencing a new kind of boom.
The old joke goes something like this: “Bozeman is great, it’s only an hour from Montana.”
Cringey to some, all-too-true to others, this hackneyed one-liner springs from an understanding among Bozeman locals that life an hour outside the city is totally different, and in some ways, more authentically “Montanan.”
Exhibit A: Pony, Montana, the postcard-perfect collection of architectural relics an hour west of Bozeman. The snowcapped Tobacco Root Mountains rise in the near distance above the ambitiously named Broadway Avenue in the heart of downtown Pony, population 137.
Carl Pearson, who runs IronGlass Lighting across Broadway Avenue from the Merc, crafts glass and iron light fixtures that look like they were made in the 1800s.
