• George Bowes (died 1606) was an English prospector. He mined for gold in Scotland. George was a son of Sir George Bowes of Streatlam and Dorothy Mallory...
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    [ʒozɛf ʒyno]; May 28, 1836–March 1, 1899) was a French Canadian miner and prospector known for co-founding, with Richard Harris, the city of Juneau, Alaska...
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  • (October 31, 1833 – October 11, 1907) was an Irish American miner and prospector. Richard Harris was born in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland. He then attended...
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    granted to James VI by Elizabeth I. The English prospector George Bowes, a nephew of the ambassador Robert Bowes, made an arrangement to work with Foulis, but...
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  • George Nedham or Needham (died 1584) was an English entrepreneur and prospector associated with copper mining at Keswick in Cumbria. Nedham's family was...
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    almost wearied therwith. A son of George Bowes, also called George, was later sent into Scotland as a mineral prospector at Wanlockhead in 1603 with Sir...
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    (subsequently known as the Travona), which attracted a significant number of prospectors seeking gold and silver. The mines attracted workers from Cornwall (England)...
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    Gavin MacLeod (/məˈklaʊd/ mə-KLOWD; born Allan George See; February 28, 1931 – May 29, 2021) was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer...
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    assigned the name "the Garden of the Gods": Riding past the cabin of a prospector from the South in one of the early days of the settlement, she was attracted...
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    Thomas Thurland (category British prospectors)
    that Hochstetter had told him of injuries suffered by George Bowes (or his brother Robert Bowes) in an accident in a Cumbrian copper mine. The Earl of...
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    appeared in many critically acclaimed films, including 12 Angry Men and The Ox-Bow Incident. His roles in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and 1981's On Golden Pond...
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  • when his vagabond friend arrives in Medicine Bow. The two head for Deadwood and excitement where a prospector takes them but his claim is on Indian land...
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    Henry Plummer (c. 1832–1864) was a prospector, lawman, and outlaw in the American West in the 1850s and 1860s, who was known to have killed several men...
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  • a "small enclosed valley". Another theory has the name derived from a prospector named Hudson who came to the area searching for gold. The District of...
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    pocketknife while insulting lawyers who came before him. He had failed as a prospector in California and was serving as the New York City recorder when William...
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  • working variously as a cowboy, a soda jerk, a newspaper reporter and a prospector in the Mojave Desert, before a number of deaths in the family left him...
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  • Scott τέμνω in Middle Liddell and Scott τείνω in Liddell and Scott "Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, τείνω". Retrieved...
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    particularly along the Urubamba River. According to Bingham, "one old prospector said there were interesting ruins at Machu Picchu," though his statements...
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    whitewater. Prospector is now a generic name for derivates of the Chestnut model, a popular type of wilderness tripping canoe. The Prospector is marked...
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    Service's satirical poem "The Ballad of the Northern Lights" (1908), a Yukon prospector discovers that the aurora is the glow from a radium mine. He stakes his...
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    hunted beavers in the 1840s. In 1860, gold was discovered, and non-native prospectors flooded the region. In the 1860s, Indian agents estimated the Tukudeka...
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  • It was directed by Joshua Logan. When a wagon crashes into a ravine, prospector Ben Rumson finds two adult occupants, brothers, one of whom is dead and...
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    scheduled route, but happened to be in Cambridge Bay after dropping off prospectors on the Barrens. His aircraft, a Gateway Aviation Beechcraft 18, was chartered...
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    Treasure of the Sierra Madre: a stark tale of greed among three gold prospectors in Mexico. Lacking a love interest or a happy ending, it was considered...
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    four in 1876. After the initial discovery, from 1870 to 1873, other prospectors made other claims in the area. These included the deposits that became...
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    bestowed on streets, civic organizations and libraries. In 1896, a gold prospector gave McKinley's name to Denali, the tallest mountain in North America...
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    1907) "I'm not guilty of the charge.": 58  — Alferd Packer, American prospector and wilderness guide (23 April 1907), who had served 18 years in prison...
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    Balto in his first day at the zoo. 'Sourdough' is another name for a prospector or minor during the Klondike gold rush of Yukon, in north-western Canada...
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