This state's first major gold strike occurred about 65 miles SW of Butte on Grasshopper Creek on July 28, 1862
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strike occurred over the divide in Bear Gulch at Beartown, two miles ... 
significance of the Gold Creek strike to Garnet's future was the publicity that it 
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