In 1882 prospector Hanson H. Barnes found outcrops of silver and lead while roaming the southern flank of the Castle Mountains in Meagher County, Montana Territory. Two years later Barnes got around to recording his remote discoveries, later to become the Princess and Maverick mines. In 1883 F.L. “Lafe” Hensley, a longtime prospector from Adair, …
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