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A view from 1939:

MAIDEN, (4,063 alt.), is a ghost camp, witnessed the first fortune-making in the Judith and Moccasin fields. Perry McAdow, a veteran of the Virginia City boom, took two out of the Maiden diggings. At the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, he exhibited a gold and silver statue of the actress Ada Rehan, and caused a stampede to the Judiths that brought the Giltedge, New Year, Kendall, and Barnes-King camps into being. It has been estimated that $18,000,000 in gold was taken from the Maiden, Giltedge, and Kendall mines alone.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.