In 1852, a trapper named Francois Finlay, who was also known as Benetsee, found the first recorded gold in what is now Montana in what he named Benetsee Creek.[1] However, not enough gold was found to make mining commercially viable.[1][2]
In 1858, prospectors James and Granville Stuart and Reese Anderson discovered gold in the creek.[3] The three men didn't have sufficient tools to begin excavating, and were unable to return with the proper equipment until 1862.[3] The creek was renamed "Gold Creek" because of the gold found there.[3] The Stuart brothers and their prospecting party helped open up Western Montana to settlers, all due to their initial find at Gold Creek.[4]
^ abFogarty, Kate Hammond. The Story of Montana. New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes company, 1916.
^Vaughn, Robert. Then and Now, or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies: Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana: Indians and Indian Wars: The Past and Present of the Rocky Mountain Country: 1864-1900. Minneapolis: Tribune Printing Company, 1900.
^ abcMilner, Clyde A. and O'Connor, Carol A. As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart. New York: Oxford University Press US, 2008. ISBN0-19-512709-9
^[1] Guide to the Granville and James Stuart Papers at the University of Montana
^Winser, Henry Jacob; Riley, William C. (1897). The Official Northern Pacific Railway Guide: For the Use of Tourists and Travelers Over the Lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and Its Branches. Northern Pacific Railway. p. 188.
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