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Two Southerners Find Richest Hill on Earth in Butte Story
Virginia City in May 1864 sees G. O. Humphrey and William Allison seek a new bonanza. They stake on Butte Hill and discover a vast silver ore district later fed by Clark and Daly rivalries, forming the rise of Butte as a leading mining city with the Anaconda and Daly's copper empire.
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Earth
America
Walter ED Taylor
Virginia City
G. O. Humphrey
William Allison
Todd County
Charlottesville
Humphrey
Meriwether Lewis
Virginia
Lewis
Allison
Alder Gulch
Lewis and Clark
Beaverhead County
Silver Bow Creek
Wyoming Street
Butte
Virnia City
Caleb E. Irvine
Fort Benton
Fort Owen
Bitter Root
Sherman
Pacific Railroad
Council Bluffs
Nevada
Butte Hill
Quartz Street
Robert Girton
Chasteen A. Humphrey
Nevada City
Calif
David N. Upton
Buffalo Gulch
Centerville
Mouna
Swansea
Wales
Missouri River
William L. Farlin
Idaho
Congress
Farlin
Owyhee
Travonia
Miners’ Union
Americas
William A. Clark
Connellsville
Mr. Clark
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Missouri
Colorado
Bannack
Horse Prairie
Clark
Salt Lake City
Blackfoot
Avon
Powell County
Rockies
Mullan Pass
New Mullan Military Road
Montana
Boise
Helena
D. W. Donnell
Deer Lodge
S. E. Larabie
Colusa
Mountain Chief
Gambetta
School of Mines
Columbia University
Columbia
Corrine
Utah
San Francisco
Baltimore
William Farlin
Dexter
Potts
Territorial
Gibbon
Nez Perces
Big Hole
Marcus Daly
J. P. Morgan & Co
Salt Lake
Daly
Hearst
Comstock Lode
Haggin
Tevis
Anaconda Silver Mining Co
Swannsea
Anaconda
Buttte
W. A. Clark
F. Augustus Heinze
Columbia School of Mines
Old Boston and Montana Mining Co
Europe
Engineering and Minin Journal
Montana Ore Purchasing Co
Heinze
Daly-Anaconda Mining Co
Silver Bow County
United Copper Co
Senator Clark
Anaconda Company
Dal
Fede
Augustus St. Gaudens
Anaconda Copper Mining Co