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...territory) horrified him. These mushroom cities swarmed with the world's adventurers, who swam in alcohol and commonly bid up to $100 (plus three cases of champagne) for one night with a prostitute. The invaders also overran the countryside, tapping the rocks with their greedy little prospector's ham mers and dazzling the Boer farmers with sovereigns...
...Fruitless Search. In the years which followed, many another prospector searched for the site of the Lost Cabin. None ever found it. But in the early 1880s John Brognard Okie, a son of President Lincoln's physician, came to Wyoming, resolved to turn the Lost Cabin country into a different kind of bonanza. He began running sheep along cottonwood-shaded Badwater Creek and in the high mountain meadows beyond...
...Missouri flows by Confederate Gulch and Montana Bar in the Big Belt Mountains. Exiled to the mountains during the Civil War, Confederate prisoners went prospecting. When the gold rush began, a greenhorn asked a bearded old prospector where he should dig. The old man spat, pointed to the least likely-looking place he could see, and said, "Try that bar yonder." The greenhorn scooped up panfuls of clean gold...
...supply was flown in from Brazil, with a higher priority (A1) than admirals. Belgian Congo and Australia produced some tantalite ore, but shipping difficulties made it hard to get. Now a new source had been discovered in far northern Canada. The discoverer was a stocky, persevering prospector named Gustrne D. De Steffany...
Gold fever ran its highest temperatures in Ontario's remote Midlothian township. There Prospector Felix Roche found a seam of gold-rich green rock at least 425 feet wide. The site is reached by portaging through a chain of lakes. Just seven days later, the 36 square miles of Midlothian township were staked solid...