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The road to Garnet's gold : a brief history of Montana's gold rush, featuring one of the last ghost towns / Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center ; Tammie Adams, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garnet (Mont.)--History.
- Garnet (Mont.).
- Frontier and pioneer life--Montana--Garnet.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Garnet (Mont.)--Gold discoveries--History.
- Gold mines and mining--Montana--Garnet--History.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Ghost towns--Montana.
- Ghost towns.
- Montana.
- Montana--Garnet.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 170 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Denver, Colorado : Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This book explores Garnet during its heyday and describes the people who stand out in its history. Garnet was hardly the most successful gold mining town in Montana, nor was it one of the first. In fact, it was one of the last gold towns to become a ghost town. Garnet's story can hardly be told alone and hinges on the path of gold discovery in the State of Montana. As a result, this book is a brief account of Montana's gold rush, followed by a more detailed exploration of the Garnet story"--Page 1.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introductions
- The lure of gold
- The Stuarts and the creek called "gold"
- The Mullen Military Road and the search for gold
- Life at Gold Creek and the rush to Bannack
- The Bannack and Virginia City booms and the vigilantes
- Beartown and the roughs
- The Upper Bear, First Chance Gulch, and the camp of "Mitchell"
- It shall be known as Garnet
- The road to Garnet's gold : timeline
- Garnet gets its own newspaper and participates in politics
- Further development in a family town from the start
- The decline of the boom
- The Davey years begin
- A fire, a war, and the deep sleep of the Twenties
- The Thirties : Garnet comes back to life
- Effects of World War II and Garnet becomes a ghost town
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (BLM website, viewed Aug. 31, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Road to Garnet's gold
- ISBN:
- 9780578912578
- 0578912570
- OCLC:
- 1260699821
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