Suzanne, Thanks for updating us. It is fun to see that you are gathering these bits of historical records to link with your family stories. I would like to add this reference for you : _Ho! For The Gold Fields_ edited by Helen McCann White, published by the Minnesota Historical Society, 1966. Hopefully you can get this through ILL. It includes diaries and letters of members of 8 wagon train trips of the Northern Routes to Montana Gold FIelds 1862-1867. These trains were led by Fisk, Davy and Holmes. Over 850 members of these 8 trains are identified and some biographical information is also included on these travellers. Also there are some wonderful maps of the trails, the communities along the route and the mining areas found in Montana. Members of these trains were from Minnesota, and nearly all the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, Significant numbers also came from Wisconsin, Michigan, Ilinois, Indiana, the District of Columbia and from Canada and England. While I did not find your RUSK mentioned, there is quite a bit of info regarding Last Chance and its beginings. It does mention that "Stanley and three companions discovered gold at a gulch they named Last Chance in early 1864". Stanley returned to England with a fortune three years later. Best of luck, and have fun, Carolyn [email protected] wrote: > > Greetings, > > By way of a thank you to all the people who've become interested in my > search for Last Chance Gulch and the trail of my g-grandfather, WILLIAM > HENRY RUSK, thought I'd send along this update. > > Yesterday my sole living aunt dug through a box and found an article from > 1975 which > appeared in the Acworth, GA newspaper. Acworth was John Cowan's GA home > before and after his prospecting days in the west. I've received is that they were JOHN COWAN, D.J. MILLER, REGINALD "BOB" > STANLEY, and JOHN CRABB. > > Well, Stanley was from England, and Crabb was from Iowa, both lovely > places, but they're definitely not Georgia! Don't know who Miller was or > from where he came. > I figured John Cowan, Frank Cowan, Bill Palmer, and Henry Rusk were the > famous "Four Georgians." > > Can someone help me with this? > > snnip==============================