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Montana Gold Rush Legacy Shows Vast Montana Yields
The piece recounts Montana’s early gold discoveries from 1861 at Gold Creek and later bonanzas at Grasshopper Gulch Aldergulch Last Chance and Confederate Gulch. It notes multi million dollar claims, ditches, and total placer output around 225 million dollars through 1880, comparing Montana favorably to Alaska and Nevada.
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Klondike
Nevada
Montana
Alaska
Gold Creek
Pioneer
Deer Lodge County
Granville Stuart
Uruguay
Paraguay
James
Pike's Peak
Pilgrim Bar
John White
Grasshorsper Gulch
Bannack
Aldergulch
Virginia City
Clare and
Wall Streets
Montana Central Depot
Taylor and Thompson
Last Chance Gulch
Missouri
Diamond City
Confederate Airy Est
Ophir
Silver Bow
Germain
Elk Creek
Bear
Highland
Lincoln
New York
Kingsbury
Oregon
Clark's Cave
Magpie
Meagher
United States
Bear Gulch
Ophir Gulch
Blackfoot River
McClellan Gulch