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Now and Then

Now and Then. Montana’s Gold and Silver Boom. Can you explain this? Find the page in the book ! Each Gold discovery brought sudden activity followed by decline, than a period of quiet, and then a sudden burst of activity in another location!!. BooM and Bust Cycle.

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Now and Then

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  1. Now and Then Montana’s Gold and Silver Boom

  2. Can you explain this? Find the page in the book! Each Gold discovery brought sudden activity followed by decline, than a period of quiet, and then a sudden burst of activity in another location!! BooMand Bust Cycle

  3. Many People moved west and into Montana to strike it rich on mining claims. • More Gold found= More People • Rumors and stories= More people The Boom!!

  4. Why did merchants and farmers follow the prospectors west during the boom? • Make Money!! • Easier work • “Mining the miners” • Farmers supplied food • Merchants built stores, motels, and saloons. Merchants and FARmers

  5. Grass Hopper Creek made the city of Bannack. • Produced over $5 million in gold dust in first year • Rumors and stories of gold caused people to pour in!! Bannack Montana

  6. More than 140 years ago, activity filled the streets of Bannack. The laughter of schoolchildren mixed with the sounds of buckboard wagons and stagecoaches rolling along the dirt streets. Miners and cowboys tied their horses to hitching posts as they went about their business. • Bannack had a Grocery store, a motel, a mansion, A church, A schoolhouse, A jailhouse, and an assay office.

  7. http://www.bannack.org/fun.html

  8. String of mining camps in Alder Gulch!! • Montana’s richest gold discovery brought in many people FourtEEn Mile City

  9. Virginia City and Nevada City

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