P a g e 3 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r affectionately our Bannack University of humble pretensions, but which sought to fulfill its mission and which, so far as I know, was the first school taught within what is now the state of Montana.” Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Lucia Darling returned to Ohio after the close of the Civil War but her dedication to her students continued through her work with the Freedman’s Bureau, an organization founded by the US government in 1865 to provide educational opportunities for newly freed African Americans. She always looked back fondly on her time in Montana and we thank her for paving the way to educating our children. CUPID’S COURT Answers to entangled and bewildered correspondents. TWO LOVERS I have two admirers, one a cattle man and the other a wool grower. My friends will not allow me to have anything to do with the former. They are all in favor of the wool grower. Others tell me to be aware of the sheep man. BAH! The profession doesn’t make the man, and it is plain to see that the cowboy has no show with you. Wool-growers are usually industrious and energetic men, but rather sheepish in love affairs and are lambs in married life. Don’t be in a hurry. The Choteau Calumet. Jan. 29, 1886 Accessed via: www.montananewspapers.org Washington Gulch, Montana Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Gold was discovered here in 1866 by Washington Stapleton when he found a nugget glittering in the creek while he was out hunting game. Known first as Stapleton Bar, the name was changed to Washington Gulch in 1869. The post office would later be moved downstream and the town would be known as Finn. Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz French Gulch, Montana- A letter from The Montana Post Newspaper, Sept. 16, 1865 describes the gulch: The length of the gulch is 2 1/2 miles. About 20 claims have been located and are paying well. Some yielded as much as $300 in a ten-hour's run. The gulch is shallow, not being more than 7-8 feet to the bedrock in the best paying claims, which said claims are located above discovery. The nearer the head of the gulch the further it is to bedrock. The streak is narrow which increases the difficulty of finding it. Some anticipate a big thing in the upper part of the gulch but “gold is where you find it”.
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