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come for miners to move farther east for richer diggings and it was
Montana’s turn to give up its own mother lodes. There, at Alder
Gulch, Bannack, Virginia City, and Last Chance Gulch, they found
another genuine bonanza. By the end of 1863, some 10,000 miners
were working the streams and some ten million dollars in gold dust
was shipped from there. After flirting with Bannack as the capitol,
the title was transferred to Virginia City located about one hundred
miles northwest of Yellowstone National Park. Today, it is a ghost
town preserved as a national historical site. Finally, Last Chance