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Montana Bar, the richest gulch

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

In 1865 a party remembered as The Germans washed a pan on a small shelf above Confederate Gulch and pulled seven pounds of gold out of it. Montana Bar, only two or three acres, ran gold from the grass roots to bedrock, so thick in the hollows that the miners swore it glowed; a single week gave up over a hundred thousand dollars, and one steamboat carried two and a half tons of the gulch gold down the Missouri in 1866. Diamond City boomed to ten thousand souls and then blew away, hydraulic mining eating its own townsite.

The ground it haunts

Big Belt Mountains above Townsend (Broadwater County, MT). Source: TRUE FIND: one of the richest placer strikes ever recorded, pin approximate. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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