Identifier: storyofmontana00foga_0 (find matches)
Title: The story of Montana
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Fogarty, Kate Hammond, -1936
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Publisher: New York and Chicago, The A. S. Barnes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e Stuart which had started out two daysbefore, expecting to explore the Yellowstone Valley andfind out its possibilities. This party the men fromIdaho hoped to overtake, but they had gained toomuch headway, and very soon after reaching theCrow country the six men came upon a camp ofIndians who showed such unfriendly feeling thatthey were obliged to turn back. Disheartened, theystarted to return to Bannack, and toward eveningthey camped upon a little stream then known asAlder Creek. Two of the men were delegated toget supper, while the others, to pass the time, satdown by the creek to pan out a little of the dirt.Soon there was a shout of joy from Bill Fairweather.He had found gold! All of the six men went to pan- 130 THE FIRST SETTLERS ning out gold and supper was forgotten. They sanka few feet and they were surprised at the richness ofthe sand. One of the pans had brought $5.10! Atlast they had found their Eldorado! It later provedto be the richest gold placer ever before discovered.
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An Old Prospector Panxixg Out Gold It was the bed of an ancient river, and several mil-lion dollars worth of gold was taken from it. At thepresent day the gulch lies deserted looking as thoughit had been swept by a powerful cloudburst. Bannack hears the news. — In order to w^ork theclaims they had to go to Bannack to procure a stockof supplies. They decided to tell a few of theirfriends, so that they too could share in the good for- SETTLERS Ds MONTANA 131 tune. Such wonderful news could not be kept asecret. It spread like wildfire and when the sixmen were ready to return to their prospect the wholetown, was prepared to follow them. It was a strangeprocession: Every horse that could go was out —oxen that would carry a pack were cinched andpacked . . . and miners afoot, with blankets on theirbacks, and coffee pots, frying-pans, picks, shovels hang-ing to them, brought up the rear of the stampede.(Quotation from a newspaper clipping in the posses-sion of the Historical Library in He

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