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John Bozeman
was born in Pickens
County, Georgia,in 1835.
Like so many men of
the Civil War era, he
was struck with gold
fever and headed west
in 1858, abandoning
his wife and three children.
Bozeman came to Montana
from Colorado in 1862
after his lust for gold
fizzled when his claims
failed to pan out. Seeing
a need to supply the
mining camps of Bannack
and Virginia City, he
realized it would be
more profitable to "mine
the miners" than
to mine gold. In 1863,
he and John Jacobs blazed
the Bozeman Trail, a
cutoff route from the
Oregon Trail, and guided
miners to Virginia City
through the Gallatin
Valley
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