[PDF] The Pikes Peak Gold Rush eBook

Author : Peter Vescia
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1499414609

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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.

Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870044120

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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.

Author : Leroy R. Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803273412

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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.

Author : Larry W Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2023-08-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781312257399

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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 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.

Author : Larry Obermesik
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781736529911

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Colorado Gold Rush history comes to life! Buried in the archives until 2021 and never published, this recently discovered collection of Gold Rush journals gives us a glimpse into the day-to-day life of emigrants and prospectors during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Writing to an "imaginary confidant", Argonaut Daniel Jenks left us a captivating firsthand account of what it was really like to cross the 'Great American Desert' on the Santa Fe and Cherokee Trails. Daniel Jenks wrote of that extraordinary chapter in American history like few others have. And now, for the first time ever, you can finally read Daniel's long-lost Colorado Gold Rush journals for yourself. It's a must-read for all History Buffs! Go West! With Daniel Jenks.