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Encounter with Jack Gallagher at Rattlesnake Ranch
Colonel Wilbur F. Sanders recalls traveling from Virginia City to Bannack in 1863 with Hauser and Plum mer. He narrates meeting Jack Gallagher at Rattlesnake Creek and a tense midnight confrontation over food and a horse amid a winter storm as Plummer's party looms on a silver mine stakeout.
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Banack City
Virginia City
Idaho
Bitter Root Mountains
Bannack
Samuel T. Hauser
Bivens’ Gulch
St. Louis
Henry Plummer
Samuel McLain
Colorado
Nevada
McLain
Sanders
Plummer
Colonel McLain
Parish, Bunton and Company
Rattlesnake Creek
Blacktail Deer Creek
Beaverhead River
Frank Parish
Parish
John Gallagher
George Ives
Territory
Montana
Sidney Edgerton
Territory of
F. M. Thompson
Leonard A. Gridley
Salt Lake City
Mr. Hauser
George Crissman
Mr. Crissman
Nathaniel P. Langford
Jack Gallagher
Rattlesnake Ranch
Erastus Yeager
A. J. Oliver and Company
Gallagher
Yeager
Argenta
Bunton
Corral
Red
George Brown
Mr. Gridley
Henry §. Tilden
Ohio
Horse Prairie
Yankee Flat
Horse Prairie Creek
Mr. Edgerton
Brown
Gridley
Grasshopper Creek
Hauser
Langford
Young Tilden
Ray
Stinson