Rediscovering home: Cedar Creek gold rush
Bruce Moats
Wouldn’t you know it, with the dearth of women living in the gold rush that rushed up Cedar Creek two would get in a fight over one man.
Unfortunately for the rest of the men in one Cedar Creek gold rush community, that is exactly what happened. The fight was reported by the Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer as occurring in Forest City. The newspaper was started one year after Louis A. Barrette discovered gold in Cedar Creek in 1869.
I studied the coverage of the gold rush by the Pioneer and other newspapers for a paper I had to write for a class during my senior year in journalism school at the University of Montana. I was interested in the gold rush after growing up on our family ranch at the mouth of Cedar Creek. My siblings and I spent many a day either fishing at the mouth or swimming at the sandbar. (During my high school tenure dad sold five acres to Dick Wadsworth and bought a sprinkler system that I did not enjoy waking each summer morning to change!).
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