Gulches/Boom Town
Vocab
Potpourri
Significant People/Routes
Critical Thinking
100

This Gulch was found and mined when a couple of fellas were looking for enough gold to "buy some tobacco"

Last Chance Gulch

100

Finding flakes of gold.

Color

100

When was Bannack founded?

1862

100

Responsible for first strike in MT in Gold Creek. 

Benetsee

100

Describe why Native Americans would have a problem with the gold rush in MT.

White encroachment, no relationship with gold miners. 

200

This colorfully named location was the home of the first gold strike in Montana, although it was not the first major strike that took place here.

Gold Creek

200

Small test hole dug in ground to find color.

Prospect hole. 

200

Loan of food or other supplies to other miners in return for some gold. 

Grubstake

200

Rival sheriff of Henry Plummer in the town of Bannack. Fled town to escape from Plummer. 

Henry Crawford. 

200

Explain the process in which Confederate soldiers came out West. (Specifically how it applies to Diamond City)

Union threats, steamboat, native tribes burning fuel, cut down fuel. 

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!

Which directional side (North, South, East, West) of which body of water is Diamond City located on?

East side of Canyon Ferry.

300

Someone in search of gold. (Not a prospector) 

Argonaut

300

Term to describe a business starting in a boomtown to sell goods at an inflated rate. 

Mining the miner. 

300

Man responsible for the findings in Virginia City. 

Bill Fairweather. 

300

Why was Diamond City named Diamond City?

Cabins arranged in that shape. "City" because it was far from a city. 

400

What was the name of the preacher's boy from Virginia City who was found frozen, hanging from a tree?

Nicholas Theibalt

400

Piles of waste and gravel left behind after mining. 

Tailings. 

400

Gulch in which Diamond City is located in.

Confederate Gulch. 

400

*DAILY DOUBLE*

Give me 3 of the 4 major overland routes that prospectors would take instead of a steamboat.


Bozeman, Mullan, Corrine, Northern Overland Route

400

Differences between fur trappers and gold miners as it relates to the relationship to Native Americans. 

Respect for land. Trade. Trappers were around for more than three years. 

500

This man found a large silver vein outside of Butte, Montana. He only found this vein because the telegraph telling him to stop mining hadn't reached him yet.

Charles McClure

500

Gold from one area is mixed with gravel or dirt of another area. 

Salting

500

Name of Henry Plummer's wife.

Electa Bryan (NOT MRS. PLUMMER)

500
The route from Virginia City to Bannack was strategically efficient for the Innocents to rob and steal on. How come??

Steep cliff sides, narrow valleys. 

500

The legislation that explained that the owner to a claim had the right explore any vein found on his claim. 

Law of Apex

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