Ezra Kind, The Thoen Stone, and all the gold they could carry.

[applecrack]

Pronghorn, perhaps I can help with your question. This is just a thought. It was often the case that when you went prospecting you packed light. Once you found a likely spot you would go to the nearest outpost or trading post to load up on supplies. This may have been the time he wrote his letter and sent it as was often the case. Several reports have this group leaving in 1833, it would be safe to say that they left in late spring or early summer of 1833. That gives them a full year since they had their gold by June, 1834. Just a though.

 

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[diane trevillyan]

ezra kind was my great-great uncle. just seeing info on my family. have gone to hill city,sd for the past three years and had no idea. road trip next year!

 

[Maitland]

ezra kind was my great-great uncle. just seeing info on my family. have gone to hill city,sd for the past three years and had no idea. road trip next year!

That is very interesting, Diane! You will have to see the stone tablet itself in person, it is at the Adam's Museum in Deadwood. I'm sure your family doesn't have any stories about Ezra that have been passed down over generations(?), but if so they would be interesting to know. As a Black Hills history buff, the Thoen Stone and the fate of Ezra have long been a fascination for me.

 

[thegoldbug]

That is very interesting, Diane! You will have to see the stone tablet itself in person, it is at the Adam's Museum in Deadwood. I'm sure your family doesn't have any stories about Ezra that have been passed down over generations(?), but if so they would be interesting to know. As a Black Hills history buff, the Thoen Stone and the fate of Ezra have long been a fascination for me.

 

[thegoldbug]

The Ezra party probably did not access the hills from Fort Laramie based upon this date I found on the website.
https://www.nps.gov/fola/index.htm