The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush

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 Pikes Peak Gold Rush

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.

The Pikes Peak Gold Rush

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: 1499414609

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.

Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth

Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth
Author: Linda Wommack
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781943829200

On October 20, 1890, Bob Womack struck gold and staked his El Paso mining claim at Poverty Gulch, which eventually ignited the greatest gold rush in Colorado's history. During Bob's lifetime, over two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of gold was mined from the Cripple Creek Mining District, which Womack was instrumental in establishing. The story of the man and the gold discovery are told through first-hand accounts from not only Womack's quotes but other legendary figures such as Irving Howbert, Horace Bennett, Leslie Doyle Spell and William, and Ida Womack. Today, over one hundred and twenty-five years after that historic gold discovery, gold is still mined in the mining district of Cripple Creek. The legacy of Robert "Bob' Miller Womack will forever remain as the discoverer of "The Greatest Gold Camp On Earth."

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition
Author: Kevin Singel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2018-05-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719553469

Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.

Colorado Gold

Colorado Gold
Author: Stephen M. Voynick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Gold
ISBN: 9780878424559

Looks at the history of the gold industry in Colorado.

Pikes Peak Backcountry

Pikes Peak Backcountry
Author: Celinda Reynolds Kaelin
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 0870043919

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This is the story of the other side of Colorado's best-known mountain- the region west of Pikes Peak. It includes stories of the first settlers and the founders of towns. It also tells of the bust years between world wars when the railroad tracks were pulled up and many communities vanished.

The Magnificent Mountain Women

The Magnificent Mountain Women
Author: Janet Robertson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2020-08-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496206312

Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.

Precious Dust

Precious Dust
Author: Paula Mitchell Marks
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

In the last half of the 19th century, thousands of gold seekers converged upon the American and Canadian West in the hope of new lives, fortunes, and beginnings. Through liberal use of their own letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts, Marks reconstructs their experiences. Maps. Photos.