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Mormons and Civil War Sparked Western Gold Rush Trail
The migration began with Mormon settlers from Utah and followers of the 1860s gold boom. By summer 1860 thousands sought riches after finds in Idaho and Salmon River country, as Coloradoans and others moved toward Deer Lodge and Grasshopper Creek in Montana.
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Montana
Utah
Great Salt Lake
Pike’s Peak
Colorado
Nevada
Clearwater Valley
Snake River
Washington
Idaho
H. H. Bancroft
Salmon River
Fort Lemhi
Sal
Mon River
California
Oregon
Deer Lodge
Willard’s
Grasshopper Creek
Beaverhead River
John White
William Eads
Bannack
Columbia
Missouri
Woodmansee
Salt Lake City
Beaverhead
Rattle
Snake Creek
Dillon
John Morley
Morrley
Little Jefferson Avis Burchett
Thomas Jefferson
Jeff Davis Gulch
Yankee At
Clark
A. J. Oliver
Russel
Central City
Colo
William Andrews Clark
Sidney Edgerton
Arkon, O
Edgerton
Lewiston
East
Republican Party
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
West
Pauline
Martha
Martha Plassmann
Great Falls
Sidney Jr
Wilbur Fisk Sanders
Henry Tilden
Territory
Congress
Bill Fairweather
Henry Edgar
Abraham Lincoln
Legislative Assembly
United States
Madison County
Vilia City
Alder Gulch
Ae Poe
Virginia City