Word: goldfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...settled the West," she notes crisply. "They built the churches; they built the towns." Her purchase of dozens of nonproducing Henderson claims over 50 years probably struck some as more sentimental than savvy. But now her holdings, on lease to Crown Butte, constitute at least 40% of its goldfield--a portion so large that the pact is specifically contingent on her selling her rights to the company so that they can be part of the exchange...