ack Hills, although not part of the Rock Mountains, per se, underwent gold rush in the mid 1870 the Hills become a series of boomtowns, most notably Deadwood.Montana’s history, Butte became the largest and most influential city in the state for most of its history. The mining frontier was an urban oriented frontier because the individual miner either placer or corporate—was not self sufficient. ASSAULT ON NATUREFrom 2960,890, miners produced $ 1,241,827,032 of gold and $901,160,660 of silver. Which does not included the value of copper and other semi-precious metals that were added to the economy. Mining had one of the most destructive impacts on nature of any human activity. . The environmental costs of mining have been extraordinarily expensive. Individuals or partner working a st5reamordigging into a hill with had tools in order to extract the mineral wealth that had been reported. Hydraulic mining ort he use of high pressure watedr canon. Basin of the Snake River. 1862, gold was discovered in southern Montana at Banner and Alder Gulch, shortly followed by strikes in last Chance Gulch (Helena) and Butte....
