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Additional Information and Resources for Chapter 6
More on Vigilantes/Vigilantism
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Educational Trunks
Gold Silver and Coal Oh My!: Mining Montana's Wealth from the
Montana Historical Society. This trunk chronicles the discoveries that
drew people to Montana in the late nineteenth century and examines how
the mining industry developed and declined.
East Meets West: The Chinese Experience in Montana from the
Montana Historical Society. This trunk chronicles the lives of the Chinese who
came to Montana, the customs that they brought with them to America,
how they contributed to Montana communities, and why they left.
Bannack Mining from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. This trunk
covers hard rock and placer mining through activities and artifacts
depicting the gold mining history in Bannack.
Websites and Online Lesson Plans
Created by Billings elementary school librarian Ruth Chandler Ferris,
"Thinking
Like a Historian: Using Digital Newspapers in the Classroom" is
a flexible lesson plan that introduces students to newspaper
research and the social history of gold-rush era Montana.
"Bannack Boom and Bust: Exploring Bannack, Montana's Colorful Past," is a good starting point for lessons on Montana's gold rush. The
lesson plan, created for Montana PBS to accompany the video Bannack:
A Window in Time, includes several interesting web links and
activity suggestions.
Find a lesson plan that involves panning for gold on page 35 of the
user guide for the "Gold, Silver and Coal" footlocker.
Montana: The Magazine of Western History created discussion
guides for articles in its autumn 1999 gold rush issue, including "No
Need to Rush: The Chinese, Placer Mining, and the Western Environment," by Liping Zhu.
It also created discussion guides for articles in its winter 1999
transportation issue, including "The
Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in Montana and the Northwest," by
Carlos Schwantes. In both cases, the articles' full text (but
not the pictures) are posted online.
Good background information on the Bozeman Trail is available through
the
Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association.
"German Gulch" is a new website focused on the archaeological finds
from German Gulch, a 19th and early 20th century mining area near
Butte, Montana. The collection contains
some of the most significant Chinese artifacts recovered in Montana.
Look under "Education" for additional links to the history of
Montana's Chinese.
Videos or DVDs
Bannack: A Window in Time, Montana State Parks - 60 minutes.
From the Far East to the Old West: Chinese and Japanese Settlers in
Montana, Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs - 29 minutes.
Check your library. Copies of the video and study guide were
distributed free of charge to all Montana public schools.
Pauper's Dream: Tribute to the Montana Hard Rock Miner, Joseph
Campanella - 58 minutes.
Possible Fieldtrips
Bannack State Park, 24 miles southwest of Dillon
World Museum of
Mining, Butte
Elkhorn State Park, near Boulder (Gravel road and high
elevation make Elkhorn difficult to access in the winter.)
Garnet, 30 miles east of Missoula
Granite State Park, near Philipsburg (Accessing this ghost
town requires high clearance vehicles.)
Helena (Use the booklet
Camp to Capital: Step into Helena's Past,
by Ellen Baumler et al, for a self-guided tour or arrange a tour with
Montana Historical Society interpretive historian
Ellen Baumler.)
Virginia City,
Montana
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Hydraulic mining in Alder Gulch, M.T., ca. 1869-71,
photo by W. H. Jackson of the Hayden Survey, Montana Historical
Society Photo Archives, Mines and Mining
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Walter S. Corwin, photo by E. H. Train, Helena,
Montana Historical Society Photo Archives, Mines and Mining
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Indian Camp with Mt. Helena in the distance, ca.
1874, photo by Bundy & Train, Helena, Montana Historical Society
Photo Archives 953-370
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Detail of photograph of Pioneer City, M.T., 1883,
photo by F. Jay Haynes, Montana Historical Society Photo Archives,
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