Case file · Folklore / legend
The Blue Bucket Mine
Emigrants on Stephen Meek's disastrous 1845 cutoff across central Oregon later told of picking up yellow pebbles in a creek and filling a blue bucket with what turned out to be gold.
1845 CE · 44.00, -120.00 · status: legend
The account
After the California gold rush, many searched for the spot. Gold was later found elsewhere in eastern Oregon, but the creek of the story has never been identified.