Grand Front Doors, Old Brick School, Glentana Montana by Arielle Seibold-Galston Via Flickr: The most striking feature about the tiny near-ghost town of Glentana is it's beautiful two story brick school. It sits on the very western edge of town, set apart from everything else. The giant sky and land around it don't diminish it's striking presence. Even in decay it's one of the most beautiful old school buildings I have ever seen. Can you imagine sitting in class, looking out those big windows onto the prairie? I hate to see this building fall apart. It's in the most beautiful location and so beautifully designed. If anyone has any history or stories about this place please share! Remote doesn't even begin to describe the area where the tiny dying town of Glentana is. Up here the sky to ground ratio is unbelievable. Even I, a self professed prairie loving person (who was raised on the prairie since I was one) like myself was almost uncomfortable--there was so much sky, and so little earth. Robert and I agreed that it's an "exposed" feeling that makes a person nervous, and like I said we both are usually quite comfortable on the prairie. But the farther north you get the more you feel like you're standing in the sky with the ground far below you. Honestly, once you get used to the feeling you like it (at least I did). But as you can see there are pretty much no trees--not even in the draws--and if anything just a few scrub bushes to contrast the prairie grass. Glentana it's self has a handful of old buildings and homes and even a church. It's very quiet there. Only 9 people lived there at the 2000 census. "Glentana is ten miles from the Saskatchewan border. Homesteaders began locating around Scobey and nearby Glentana by the hundreds in the early 1900s, even before the government survey. Grassland was turned into fields, some with single-bottom plows pulled by horses and some with hired "gang plows" pulled by big steam engines. Glentana was a station near the end of the branch line of the Great Northern that went up to Opheim.(from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) Before the Great Northern and Soo Line RR branch lines were built into the county area in 1913, supplies were freighted in from the "main line", usually up from Poplar. Grain also had to be hauled there, all by team and wagon. A stage, following about the same route of the ancient Wood Mountain Trail, ran for some years, carrying mail and passengers to the area. At one time, most of the homes in Daniels County were heated by lignite coal, which could be found in most areas of the county. Many rural residents just went out and trip mined their own coal where they found it, perhaps working with a neighbor or two. It was poor quality coal, but the settlers became quite adept at getting maximum heat from it. Without this abundant local fuel source, settling of the area may have had to wait until the rails came. There were a number of commercial mines in the county, some quite extensive. In addition, Glentana used to have a smelter that burned Montana coke, produced by placing coal in coke ovens that burned off the gases and impurities at high temperatures leaving a high-grade fuel called "coke." This activity gradually died out, however. To the south of Glentana is the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Sioux and Assinniboine live on the reservation, encompassing more than 2 million acres of land just east of Fort Peck Lake, almost to North Dakota, and from 50 miles south of Canada to the Missouri River in the south." -visitmt.com