Kansas Territory And The Pikes Peak Gold Rush
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The Pikes Peak Gold Rush
Author | : Peter Vescia |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499414617 |
Few events have shaped the history, economy, and even geography of the state of Colorado quite like the Gold Rush. This book examines the events that led up to the discovery of gold, how the Gold Rush changed the cities and towns of Colorado, and the long-term effects on the state’s environment and natural resources. The informative text, supported by full color images and primary source documents, provides not only a chronology of events, but also historical perspective on how the past inevitably impacts the present.
Pike's Peak Gold Rush - One Miner's Account
Author | : Larry W Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781312257399 |
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 Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861. The majority of the gold was found north of Pike's Peak, up to the Denver - Boulder area. An estimated 100,000 gold seekers took part in one of the greatest gold rushes in North American history. The participants in the gold rush were known as "Fifty-Niners" after 1859, the peak year of the rush and often used the motto Pike's Peak or Bust! This book, "Pike's Peak Gold Rush - One Miner's Account" traces the path of Chalkley J. Hambleton, from Chicago, transporting a fourteen-wagon oxen train loaded with a twelve-stamp quartz rock crushing machine and all necessary tooling, food and wares to set up a gold mining operation in Colorado, a truly engaging account for any wild west reader.
The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush
Author | : Robert L. Brown |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870044120 |
Colorado's Pikes Peak Gold Rush was an event of enormous social and cultural significance, changing the basic economy and lifestyle of the entire region. Pikes Peak became synonymous with the wild westward rush that ensued.
The Pike's Peak Gold Rush (1857-1861)
Author | : Julia Cassie Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Colorado |
ISBN | : |
To the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, 1859
Author | : Leroy R. Hafen |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803273412 |
Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for yellow metal. The Pike?s Peak gold rush of 1859 attracted as many gold seekers as the more famous California gold rush of the previous decade. In this volume, noted western historian LeRoy R. Hafen has collected invaluable Pike?s Peak gold rush diaries chronicling the struggles, dreams, and heartaches of those who traveled the overland routes to untold riches. The diarists who came along the Arkansas and Platte Rivers and along trails from Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois created records of the landscapes and peoples they encountered as they journeyed. In the words of these single-minded adventurers, larger-than-life characters mingle with the awesome, terrible beauty of the Great Plains and the sparse comforts of the old Middle West. The Pike?s Peak gold rushers provide firsthand accounts of the dangers and rewards of overland travel, as they sought ephemeral fortunes in the Rocky Mountain West.
Northern Illinois and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, 1857-1859
Author | : Helen Elizabeth Beko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Colorado |
ISBN | : |
The Pikes Peak Gold Rush
Author | : Peter Vescia |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499414560 |
Few events have shaped the history, economy, and even geography of the state of Colorado quite like the Gold Rush. This book examines the events that led up to the discovery of gold, how the Gold Rush changed the cities and towns of Colorado, and the long-term effects on the state’s environment and natural resources. The informative text, supported by full color images and primary source documents, provides not only a chronology of events, but also historical perspective on how the past inevitably impacts the present.
The Pike's Peak Rush
Author | : Edwin L. Sabin |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781500812096 |
"Twenty-five thousand people—and more on the way! Think of that!" exclaimed Mr. Richards, Terry's father.It was an evening in early April, 1859, and spring had come to the Richards ranch, up the Valley of the Big Blue, Kansas Territory. Excitement had come, too, for Harry (Harry Revere, that is, the clever, boyish Virginia school-teacher who was a regular member of the family) had been down to the town of Manhattan, south on the Kansas River and the emigrant trail there, and had brought back some Kansas City and St. Louis papers. They were brimming with the news of a tremendous throng of gold-seekers swarming to cross the plains for the new gold fields, discovered only last year, in the Pike's Peak country of the Rocky Mountains.