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On this day in 1845, a large party of settlers crossing the plains on their way to the Oregon country left the established trail and traveled along the previously untracked Malhuer River in eastern Oregon. In the weeks that followed, the group happened upon a spring in which shiny yellow pebbles were found. Some of these pebbles were tossed into a blue bucket carried by one of the immigrants but were later lost. Three years later when gold was discovered in California, this incident was recalled by some of the party members and thus began the search for the mythical Blue Bucket Mine. Gold was discovered, but in other locations. To this day the location of the Blue Bucket Mine remains unknown.
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