GOLD RUSH💴

CHANGE OF THE LANDSCAPE

• Gathered many people of different cultures to the Rocky Mountains
• Economy changed from fur trade to gold
• Boom and bust cycle was created and defined the economy at the time

ALDER GULCH

• Alder Gulch is in the Yellow Stone River region
• Mining for gold started in May, 1863.
• Indians turned the prospector groups around.
• One group camped by Ruby River valley and found a lot of gold
• Within a few months a lot of people came to Alder Gulch

GRASSHOPPER CREEK

• Grasshopper creek basically made the city of Bannack
• In 1862 a prospector and his partner found gold by Beaverhead River
• There were so many grasshoppers, they named it grasshopper creek.
• Nearly 400 people flocked the river that summer.
• Grasshopper creek produced 5 million dollars in gold dust.

LAST CHANCE GULCH

• Last chance gulch was about to give up.
• Rumors began to fly that there was gold somewhere else.
• Four men call the four Georgians created the gold panning technique.
• They called it the Georgian Method.
• They found gold in the Prickly Pear Creek, just before they gave up.

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GOLD PANNING

CITING

• Montana Stories of the Land

BY:EMILY KELLY AMD LEXI CARSON🙌

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