[5] In 1895, the town was renamed for prominent local cattle rancher, Pierre Wibaux, who had immigrated to the area from France in 1883.

[7] After Wibaux's arrival, the town became a major cattle shipping center for the Northern Pacific Railroad,[6] notably receiving some of the cattle from Theodore Roosevelt's Maltese Cross and Elkhorn ranches near Medora, North Dakota.

[8] The great cattle drives of the 1880s often passed by Wibaux on their way from Texas to the northern ranges.

[9] Theodore Roosevelt had a famous encounter with a bully at Nolan's Hotel in Wibaux (Mingusville, at the time) shortly after moving to the North Dakota Badlands in 1884.

Arriving at the hotel late at night, Roosevelt was accosted by a drunk sheep herder carrying cocked revolvers in both hands, and ordered to buy drinks for the crowd.

Roosevelt pretended to move towards the bar, then punched the man three times in quick succession, causing the drunk to fire his revolvers as he fell.

The future president then took away the man's guns before several other occupants of the hotel dragged him out into a shed.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.08 square miles (2.80 km2), all land.

[11] Beaver Creek runs through the town and has been known to contain large walleye and Northern Pike.

[21] Other sites in the complex are a Montana Centennial Train Car which was an exhibit in the 1964 World's Fair, a livery stable, and a barber shop.

[22] At the western end of town, there is a statue of Pierre Wibaux that he commissioned in his will to look over the sloping landscape.

[5] Each year the town holds a summer festival, called the Ski Fest as homage to its predominantly Polish roots.

[25] The 2002 Vin Diesel movie, Knockaround Guys, was based (although not filmed) in Wibaux.