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    Ora Rush Weed (October 6, 1868 – May 4, 1942) was a Methodist minister who founded Weedville, a small farming community in Arizona. Weedville's utilities...
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    Weedville, Arizona (redirect from Ora Weed)
    the limits of that city. Reverend Ora Rush Weed (1868–1942) was a Methodist minister from Kansas. It is unknown why Weed decided to leave his hometown with...
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    A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners...
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    The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma...
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    Rivera Levi Ruggles Jedediah Smith Jack Swilling Trinidad Swilling Ora Rush Weed Richens Lacey Wootton Henry Wickenburg "Old Bill" Williams Brigham Young...
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    Rivera Levi Ruggles Jedediah Smith Jack Swilling Trinidad Swilling Ora Rush Weed Richens Lacey Wootton Henry Wickenburg "Old Bill" Williams Brigham Young...
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    Miller moved the Bella Union to Deadwood, South Dakota (site of the gold rush in the Dakota Territory), and Holliday went with him.: 101–103  In 1877,...
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    The Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas...
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