The evening exchange between Bill Fairweather and Henry Edgar in Alder Gulch, as described by Dorothy Johnson in "The Bloody Bozeman," launched the richest placer mining strike in world history. The ...

Jan. 21—A sign above Montana History teacher Kris Schreiner's classroom alerts Kalispell Middle School eighth graders that they are entering Alder Gulch to mine for gold and garnets. Alder Gulch, was ...

It’s a story repeated throughout the history of Montana’s formative gold strikes — at Grasshopper Creek in 1862, Alder Gulch (Virginia City) in 1863, Last Chance Gulch (Helena) in 1864, and hundreds ...

Anton Holter arrives at Ramshorn Gulch, 18 miles west of Virginia City. It's the jumping-off point for a new enterprise n the timber industry n in what will become Montana less than six months later.

The first Jewish immigrants arrived in Montana at Alder Gulch, near Virginia City, following the gold rush. They later moved to Helena, where the state’s first organized Jewish community was formed.

Editor’s note: This week the Three Rivers Edition is launching a new column titled “Dredging up the Past” about the history of Alder Gulch. The column, to be written by staff members of the Montana ...

Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner demonstrates how to use a sluice to eighth-graders, from left, Shyann Richsel, Hallie Granley and Kaylee Whitten during a lesson on panning for gold, ...