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Pioneer Montana Gold Camp and Its Fading Dream
The article recounts Pioneer Montana once a booming mining camp where Granville Stuart and French trappers sparked a rush after early gold finds. It traces Conrad Kohrs family influence, Chinese miners led by Tim Lee, failed dredge ventures, and Gus Wisner’s long life amid ruins, with notes on 1870s markets and the doodle bug method.
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Pioneer
Montana
Granville Stuart
Bateese
Frenchtown
Manna
Pike’s Peak Creek
Deer Lodge
Nevada
Idaho
Conrad Kohrs
Columbia University
New York
Columbia
Tim Lee
Pacific
China
Masonic Lodge
Rock Creek
Pike Peak
Gus Wisner
Gus
Helena
Pat Wall
Butte
Wall
Toledo Blade
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America
Longfellow
North Wallasboro
Charles Dickens
New York City
Henry Dickens
Charles
Rocky Mountain
Holter Liquor House
Senate
Washington
Portland
Ore
Pacific Coast
Michigan Cavalry
Shilo
Lee
Grant
Appomattox
Wisner
Fort Bridger
Wyo
Old West
Clark
S. E. Larabie
New England
Pioneer District
Shelby