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USNPSDEVAR,36.34058,-116.52096,2984,BREYFOGLE MINE SAR DATUM :: ELEV 2984 FT

 

 

 

 

• A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors
in the American West, 1850-1950 Book by Sally Zanjani; 1997

• Civil War Gold and Other Lost Treasures: On the Trail
of Various Grey Ghosts, Blue Bummers, Bushwhackers,
Blockade-Runners, Jayhawkers, Mossbacks, Copperheads,
Scalawags, and Honest Citizens and the Hidden Riches They Left behind
Book by W. Craig Gaines; 1999





 

 

 

 

Charles Breyfogle And His Lost Mine - The legend of the Lost Breyfogle Mine holds an important place in the lore that enriches
the heritage of the American West. While there have been numerous published versions of the tale, few have captured
the full range of the adventures which led Charles Breyfogle to his chance discovery of gold in the Nevada desert. More...

The pioneers who had accidentally stumbled into Death Valley carried more than their story of their sufferings to the settlements
of California: one of them brought tangible evidence that precious metals could be found there.

The earliest desert prospectors found few minerals but left place names and some legends behind them.
Darwin was named for a disappointed miner named Darwin French. A Dr. Samuel George,
of the Rough and Ready Mining Co. discovered antimony at Wildrose Canyon on Christmas Day 1860
and called it the Christmas Gift Mine.

 

A prospector named Charles C. Breyfogle after being lost from his prospecting party for several days,

returned from the Valley with rich gold ore in his hands and no memory of where he had discovered it.

Thus, the Lost Breyfogle Mine was added to the lore and the lure of the region.

 

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