Lost Blue Bucket Mine
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The Lost Blue Bucket Mine is a lost mine reputed to be located along the Meek Wagon Train trail between the present day cities of Vale and The Dalles in Oregon, United States. Its discovery traces bac
The John Day River passing by Sheep Rock in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument; the mine is thought to be near the John Day River
Stephen Meek
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Stephen Hall L. Meek was a fur trapper and guide in the American west, most notably a guide on a large wagon train that used a trail known as the Meek Cutoff. A native of Virginia, both he and his you
Lost Blue Bucket Mine
…reached what is now The Dalles, Oregon in October, 1845. The single nugget was eventually recognized as gold. Another version holds that when the Stephen Meek Wagon train stopped along the trail in present-day Crook County near Bear Creek, children went to gather water at some distance from the camp. They…
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