Weather. He had to walk from Thompson Falls over the mountains. They came in to eel city in january of 1884. He was famous for the gunfight at the o. K. Corral and tombstone arizona where they were gunned down and it was pretty famous. They have made a lot of movies about it the one he got to the camps with that notoriety, people knew him so they voted him to be the sheriff sort of an offthecuff thing. In 1882 was when Andrew Prichard found gold in the Coeur D Alene mountains. They werent mountains i guess but there wasnt much there then. Just him and when he went to spokane he let it be known that he had gold and the lunch of guys forced him to go back over there to find the mind and they couldnt find it again. But there wasnt anything there. There was just countryside than and Coeur D Alene there wasnt anything in the city. It was just barely getting started. They had ford sub buys it pretty much trees and tense. The gold rush started in the fall season of 1883 when people started co
Through the discovery of gold by Andrew Prichard in 1882 a human avalanche of 5,000 “gold rushers” soon descended on the area around Eagle Creek and Murray. But within a year, these prospectors began spilling over the Coeur d’Alene mountains to the south to prospect for additional gold deposits. However, lead-silver outcroppings were found, rather than gold, and claims were filed.