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Fort Benton MT

Head-of-navigation riverfront

Riverbank Inferred from historyPermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

1846 fur post; 1860-1887 head of Missouri steamboat navigation - the whole Montana gold trade crossed this levee

Old West pick with real logic; documentation thin.

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