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The Blue Bucket Mine

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

The story

In 1845 the lost Meek wagon train, wandering the high desert, camped on a creek where the children gathered heavy yellow pebbles, enough to fill a blue wooden bucket, and hammered them flat on the wagon irons. Years later, when California taught everyone what gold looked like, the survivors realized what the children had been playing with. Nobody ever found that creek again, and the hunt for it kicked off the real gold rushes into the Blue Mountains.

The ground it haunts

Somewhere in the Harney/Malheur high desert country. Source: The most famous lost placer in the Northwest. 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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