Montana: Stories of the Land

Chapter 6 - Montana's Gold and Silver Boom, 1862 - 1893

Online textbook: Chapter 6 - (.pdf)

Worksheet 1: Placer versus Quartz Mining - (.pdf)

Worksheet 2: Creating and Interpreting a Graph - (.pdf)

Learning from Historical Documents:

Letter from Emily Meredith to "Father," from Bannack, 1863

Letter from Cornelius Hedges to "Parents," from Helena, 1865

Letter from E.W. Knight to U.S. Attorney General, 1882, about Segregated Schools

Interesting Links

Take a virtual tour of Bannack, Montana's first territorial capital.

Explore Marysville. 

View pictures from several other Montana ghost towns, including Elkhorn, Garnet, Granite, Hecla, and Virginia City.

View the original Vigilante Oath.

Use this interactive map to discover ghost towns near you.

 

For Educators