Maiden, an old mining camp in the Judith Mountains about 10 miles east of here and now a ghost town, sprang up in April 1880 after "Slookum Joe" Anderson, Frank McPartland, and Dave Jones discovered placer gold there. Jennie Connely named the camp after her daughter, whom the bullwhackers who brought them to the new camp called "Little Maiden." By 1884, more than 1,500 people lived there, and its narrow main street wound through the gulch with barely enough room for businesses and homes. In 1882, Maiden had several general merchandise stores, a meat market, hotel, restaurant, a clothing store, and eight saloons. The camp boomed for five short years, then declined slowly until a fire destroyed it in 1905. In 1881, "Skookum Joe" and Dave Jones located the first hard rock mine, the War Eagle, high in the mountains above Maiden, and other mines soon followed, including the Spotted Horse, the Maginnis, and the Collar. Miners considered the ore high grade and found it in pockets throughout the mountain range. The mines around Maiden produced more than $5 million in gold and silver before mining ended there in the early twentieth century.