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Episode 199: Who Discovered The Fortune? Part 1
In 1885, North Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene mining country was alive with prospectors chasing rumors of gold, silver and sudden wealth. Among them was veteran prospector Noah Kellogg, whose latest grubstaked expedition seemed destined to end like so many others: with dwindling supplies and nothing valuable to show for the effort.
Then his borrowed jackass wandered away.
When Kellogg tracked down the missing animal near Milo Creek, he found it standing beside an outcropping of galena, the silver-bearing lead ore that would help transform the region.
But where history ends and legend begins remains…
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