"Keyes Lost Diggings" by Peter Netzel is an account, told through newspaper articles, of an incredible discovery of gold by Chris Keyes in 1865 in The Little Rockies, a mountain range in north-central Montana. The ending to the story of the Lost Keyes Diggings is as tragic as the find was fabulous. To this day, the location of the Keyes placer diggings is wrapped in profound mystery.Chris Keyes, was prospecting in the Red Water River region near the...
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