page_title: Lost Blue Bucket Mine
section_title: Points of agreement
hierarchical_section_title: Lost Blue Bucket Mine / The legend / Points of agreement
caption_attribution_description: Covered wagon on the Oregon Trail, drawing was used in several early 20th century history books.
context_page_description: The Lost Blue Bucket Mine is a lost mine reputed to be located along the Meek Wagon Train trail between the present day cities of Vale and The Dalles in Oregon, United States. Its discovery traces back to 1845, several years before the start of the California Gold Rush.
context_section_description: The various versions of the legend tend to agree on a few key points :
  Lost Oregon-bound emigrants discovered it in summer 1845,
  The deposit is coarse placer gold in a dry stream bed or canyon,
  The canyon is bottomed with lava pocked with cavities and potholes.
caption: A drawing of a pioneer covered wagon
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