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A composite photo showing a re-creation of Fort Reno on the site. Diorama at the Hoofprints of the Past Museum in Kaycee. In 1865, General Patrick Conner commanded the Powder River Expedition, with the intent of finding a place to construct a fort on the Powder River in Dakota Territory to prote
Gold nugget. 1848. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. This small piece of yellow metal is believed to be the first piece of gold discovered in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in California, launching the gold rush. On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall was superintending the construction of a sawmill for Col. John Sutter on the South Fork of the American River at Coloma, California, when he saw something glittering in the water of the mill's tailrace. According to Sutter's diary, Marshall stooped down to pick it up and “found that it was a thin scale of what appeared to b...