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The Lost Sheepherder mine

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

The story

Jarbidge country lore: a sheepherder named Ross said he pulled rich gold from a lost ledge in the canyons, and died before he could return. The 1909 rush that built Jarbidge, the last gold-rush town in the lower 48, chased exactly this story into some of the most remote country in Nevada. The town is real and still there; the ledge never surfaced.

The ground it haunts

Jarbidge canyons (Elko County, NV). Source: Jarbidge's 1909 rush is documented history; the sheepherder's ledge is the legend that lit it. 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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