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Show Th l'lrl Guld lllocnvrry liar It. T. Crow tell In The Maguln of American Itlatory an odd atory of tlw Drat got 1 diacovory In weolcrn Amrtca iJeutenant, afterward Uencral Zebulon M Ilk, for whom Ilko'g wak waa namo.1, wa In .Vow iUiiw, then Meg lean territory. In 1647. At Hanla I', wolklngat tb carpenter Irad among the Meiloane, wai a dtitcn of lh United Klatoa nameil 1'uraley, originally from llurdalown, Ky. Tlw carpenter had bun out on th plaint with a hunting party, rjiconnu-llng boatila Mont they wet driven to lh Lljli grounda la th rear cf Ilk' ja-ak. la Ihu rrglon, tiear tb headwater of lh Ia Halt river, Pur-l?y Pur-l?y foun.1 gold. Hi carried It w Ith him toKanli I'e an.) lulltitlll In l.laioo-beaaloa l.laioo-beaaloa when Lieutenant Ilk found him In tl7, Th Meilrani hal need every Inducement Induce-ment to rauad funlay to go with them anl bkowthem tlw gold region. Tlwy ha.1 even offered to bend a itrong fore of cavalry with hlra at an raccrt, but b bad rufubod, Uwuuao Iw bcllird tlw dlatrict la which th j.llow m.ul had been found belonged 1 ro fly to tlw Unltvd Uutea If gold really iiatd In i larg quaulitloa then, ai Pantry lw illeved II did, then Mciioo woull or. I talnly bar clalme.) tho dlacovcrle. So I I Puraley kept bla tocrtt fra lalriotio I motlrra an I bided hi lime. Unfortn- I I nalely.hlUJuiencrercau IJeulenanl I Ilk publbdie.1 t ,tory la hla retort, but nobody folliwed up tb clew. Tim went on. Th Mealcan war waa fought I audavait territory gained forlrw United I Bute. Theo It waa, only a feivjcan later, that th gold leld waa rrdUeov-ired, rrdUeov-ired, undoubtedly la United IjUtea Ur-I Ur-I tltcry, for wo had conquered It, |
