Drummond bills itself as the home of the "
World Famous Bullshippers". Down by the railway tracks one will find their haunt, the corrals of the Bullshippers, sporting a big sign reading "
Used Cow Lot".
In Drummond one will find a grocery store, two gas stations/convenience stores, a quilting store, three motels, two bars, three restaurants, plus a drive in. Amentiies include an impressive library, a health center, a bank & post office, fire department and ambulance as well as a senior citizens center.
As the tummies were rumbling (literally) when we rumbled (figuratively) into town, plus the fact that they have a bunch of cool old stuff in and around the place, we chose to eat at one of those three restaurants, the Country Bumpkins Diner, before embarking on a tour of the town. Happily, the food is as advertised, good ole home style meat & potatoes & homemade bread fresh out of the oven style food. I honestly can't remember what we had to eat there, only that it was very good and very filling. I'd be willing to bet, though, that we both had the breakfast special, as we usually do. It's the best way to get a true impression of their food and their style.
Across the front of the place is a verandah with a single table for al fresco dining and a collection of old cast iron stoves arrayed along the front of the building. Elsewhere around the diner are wagon wheels, wooden watering troughs, agricultural implements, a road grader, even an old McCormick Deering 10-20 Tractor.
If one happens to be passing by on the July 4th weekend they may participate in the
Kiwanis Bullshipper’s Rally & Rodeo, the town's biggest annual blowout. Next year (2017) will the the staging of the 74th annual rodeo. Drummond is in a predominantly agricultural area, so an annual rodeo is to be expected of a small town like Drummond. Up in the hills, both to the north and the south, the major activity until recent times has been silver mining, with old mines and ghost towns sprinkling the high country.
A long stone's throw north of the Clark Fork River, Drummond was, according to local legend, named for a trapper who operated a line of traps in the area and camped about where the railroad station now stands. The first camp at this site was established in 1871 and was called Edwardsville for John Edwards, a local rancher. It was renamed for trapper Hugh Drummond in 1883. When the post office was established in 1884 the name was shortened from Drummond Camp to Drummond.