Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Subject 28 Black Hills mining Sept 1876

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Wyoming WPA Subject File, Black Hills mining Sept 1876 - Newspaper transcriptions "Cheyenne Daily Leader"
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WPA Collection
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WPA Subject 28 Black Hills mining Sept 1876
Item Description: 
Black Hills mining Sept 1876 - Newspaper transcriptions "Cheyenne Daily Leader", Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept 2-29, 1876
Date: 
1876
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Deadwood (S. D.)
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Hibbard, W. H.
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Frost, Jack
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Alpha Gold Mine - Bennett, W. C. - an Alpha lode owner
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Custer City (S. D.)
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Pony Express Fort Larmie (Goshen Co.) - Seymour & Ingalls, proprietors
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commercial food item prices
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Gulch mine of Whitewood & Cape Horn Districts
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Curley, E. A. - journalist - authored "Gliittering Gold; the True Story of the Black HIlls" book
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Bews, Henry - trader
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new Eldorado
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Stebbin, Post & Co.
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Wheeler, W. P. - one of the Wheeler brothers - partners: Farnham, C.; Ryan, R. and Webber, Joseph
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Metcalf mines
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Inter-Ocean Hote at Cheyenne (Laramie Co.L)
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Gardner, Capt. [or Col.] C. V.
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Bennett, W. H. - Alpha mine
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Inartz, B. H. - mine claims
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Hidden Treasure lode
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Golden Terry claim
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Williams, Col.
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Belcher Loade
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Allen, F. M. - a postmaster & miner
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Chief of the HIlls - ". . . more valuaable than any of the others [lodes] in that area
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Spring Creek
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Stokes, George
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". . . The smartest Alaecks on all subjects here are men from Montana."
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John W. Allen & Co. - opened claim No. 2
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Crook City (S. D.)
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". . . The men who demand the highest wages, and earn the smallest, are from Utah."
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". . . The men who look you in the eye and ask the most unheard of prices for their claims hail from Nevada."
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". . . The most persistent prospectors" are from Colorado
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Irion, James - Boughton & Beary ranch worker
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Hollins, John
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Botsford, Mr. - miner
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the Chisems (father & son) ". . . road off with about $80,000 of the yellow dross."
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Crook, Gen.
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Farnum, Mayor
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Kurtz & Philbrook: Councilmen
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Gwin, Maj. S. R.
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Smith, Rev. H. W. - killed by Indians
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Mason, Louis - killed by Indians
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Sitting Bull - Indian chief
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Brown, Isaac - of firm Lee & Brown
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Green Todd's train
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Kimball & Co.
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Sutherland & Lake
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Babcock & Co.
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Gold Run & Deadwood assays
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H. R. Henderson & Co.
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Caribou mine - on Bear Butte Creek
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Jackson, Alexander
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Centennial mine - near Laramie (Albany Co.)
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Lead City (S.. D.) - on Whitewood Creek
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Whitehead, Judge
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French, I. W.
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Ford, B. L.
Filename: 
WPA Sub 28 BLACK HILLS - MINING - SEPTEMBER 1876.pdf
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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