Thompson-Hickman County Library: - Compiled by the Thompson-Hickman Museum s Evalyn Batten Johnson and Joanne Erdall, this compendium of imagery provides a look into Virginia City s past, with photographs from the Dick Pace Archives, the Montana Historical Society, and the Thompson-Hickman Museum, as well as private collections. Virginia City s wild and unruly past comes alive in these pages, as the glowing promise of gold still stirs the imagination in this small town in southwest Montana.