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Helena, Montana's state capital and the state's third territorial capital, became known as the "Queen City of the Rockies" with the boom brought on by the 1864 gold strike. In 1864, a group known as the "Four Georgians" (consisting of John Cowan, Daniel Jackson Miller, John Crab, and Reginald - or Robert - Stanley), stumbled upon gold in what is now Helena's main street. The claim was staked and named "Last Chance Gulch." The "Four Georgians" worked the gulch until 1867, at which time they went back East.

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