Wibaux, Montana

Wibaux is named for Pierre Wibaux, a prominent French immigrant who became a wealthy cattle rancher in this area of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. After Wibaux arrived in the area (1883), the town became a major cattle shipping center on the Northern Pacific Railroad. The big cattle drives out of Texas to summer pastures on the northern ranges went by Wibaux. Theodore Roosevelt owned two large cattle ranches nearby in Medora, North Dakota, and he often shipped his cattle through Wibaux.

But the days of the big cattle drives are long over and Wibaux is seen by most people these days from the parking lot of the state travel center at the Wibaux exit from Interstate 94.