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Dig uncovering mysteries of freed slave at heart of long lost Yogo Town

Word spread far and wide that gold was discovered in Yogo Creek more than 130 years ago, calling miners to its remote riverbeds with greed gleaming in their eyes.

At one point, newspapers — perhaps falsely — boasted that the approximately 70 acres that made up Yogo Town was home to 1,500 miners.

Two years after the first flood of prospectors, the 1880 census recorded only a few dozen people in the area....

Six University of Montana archeology students spent the last three weeks digging for clues that could unravel one of Montana history's big mysteries.

"It became fascinating to me that this woman would come all the way out here alone and would live alone for so many years," said Jono Mogstad, a UM graduate student who is leading the research team....
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