PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The first gold was discovered by Benetsee in the early 1850s in the Deer Lodge Valley.
A few years later brothers, Granville and James Stuart found gold nearby and named the creek Gold Creek. They decided to keep moving when they ran out of salt and lost 4 horses in a Blackfoot raid.
In 1862, John White and William Eads found gold along a tributary of the Beaverhead river. Due to the large amount of grasshoppers, they named it Grasshopper Creek .
As the population grew, a town was built. They named this town Bannack after the Bannock Native American tribe nearby.
Bannack brought many people the valley. Groups of prospectors left in search of gold in the Yellowstone river region.
