Alder Gulch
Alder Gulch is a place in the Ruby River valley, in the U.S. state of Montana, where gold was discovered on May 26, 1863, by William Fairweather and a group of men including Barney Hughes, Thomas Cover, Henry Rodgers, Henry Edgar and Bill Sweeney who were returning to the gold fields of Grasshopper Creek, Bannack, Montana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 5,184 feet
- Description: valley in Montana, USA
- Also known as: “Alder Creek” and “Fourteen-Mile City”
Alder Gulch
- Category: landform
- Location: Madison, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Alder Gulch” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Alder Gulch (walog sa Estados Unidos, Montana, Madison County)”
- Cebuano: “Alder Gulch”
- Chinese: “榿木峽谷”
- Chinese: “阿尔德峡谷”
- French: “Alder Creek”
- French: “Alder Gulch”
- German: “Alder Creek”
- German: “Alder Gulch”
- Italian: “Alder Creek”
- Italian: “Alder Gulch”
- Ukrainian: “Альдер Галч”
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