In the 1870s and into the 1880s the copper and pyrite mine at Vigsnæs in Avaldsnes on the west coast island of Karmøy was the largest mine in Norway. For more than a decade the newcomer, now known as Visnes or Vigsnes, on the North Sea surpassed the 300-year-old Royal silver mining establishment at Kongsberg …
From the Vigsnes Copper Mine to the copper mines in Montana Les mer »
On May 25, 1866, the bark “Nicanor” left the town of Trondheim in Trøndelag, Norway. “Nicanor”, with a gross tonnage of 438, was built in Skellefteå in Sweden in 1857. When the ship set its course for Quebec in Canada, it had 233 steerage emigrants on board and five cabin passengers. Among the passengers were …
Gold discoveries led to settlement in the area west of the Big Belt Mountains on the upper Missouri River, Montana. Late in fall 1864 four former Confederate soldiers traveled south from Fort Benton on the Missouri River. Their destination was the Last Chance Gulch in Helena, but they wandered into a gulch on the west …
Confederate Gulch, Meagher County and the sheep business Les mer »