Download or read book Pike s Peak Gold Rush One Miner s Account written by Larry W Jones and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Pikes Peak Gold Rush written by Peter Vescia and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush written by Robert L. Brown and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Pike s Peak Gold Rush 1857 1861 written by Julia Cassie Foster and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To the Pike s Peak Gold Fields 1859 written by Leroy R. Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Colorado History Detectives written by Todd Laugen and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rush to the Rockies written by Tim Blevins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pike s Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859 written by Luke Tierney and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pikes Peak Or Bust written by John O. Byrne and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pikes Peak or Bust, John O. Byrne describes the excitement and challenges he faced as a gold seeker during the Colorado Gold Rush. Byrne's detailed account provides an intimate look into the lives of the miners and their day-to-day struggles in the Wild West. This thrilling memoir is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American West. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Precious Dust written by Paula Mitchell Marks and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material culled from letters, diaries, and other firsthand accounts reconstructs the experiences of people involved in the Gold Rush, showing not only what propelled them westward, but how they met the challenges of their journey

Download or read book The Southwest Historical Series Pike s Peak gold rush guidebooks of 1859 written by Ralph Paul Bieber and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters of the Pike s Peak Gold Rush written by Libeus Barney and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kansas Territory and the Pike s Peak Gold Rush written by Calvin W. Gower and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pikes Peak Or Bust written by Larry Obermesik and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Pike s Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859 written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding Gold in Colorado Prospector s Edition written by Kevin Singel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Mining in Colorado written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Pike's Peak Gold Rush, Colorado Labor Wars, Ludlow Massacre, Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company, Leadville Miners' Strike, Uranium mining in Colorado, Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894, Gold mining in Colorado, Silver mining in Colorado, Columbine Mine massacre, Leadville mining district, Coal mining in Colorado, Charles L. Tutt, Sr., November 1897 proclamation, Argo Tunnel, Henderson molybdenum mine, Bulkeley Wells, Colorado Silver Boom, King Coal, The Pinkerton Labor Spy, Sweet Home Mine. Excerpt: Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital occurred primarily between miners and mine operators. In these battles the state government, with one clear exception, always took the side of the mine operators. Additional participants in Colorado's labor struggles have included the National Guard, often informally called the militia; private contractors such as the Pinkertons, Baldwin-Felts, and Thiel detective agencies; and various labor entities, employers' organizations such as the Mine Owners' Associations, and vigilante groups and employer-sponsored citizens groups, such as the Citizens' Alliance. The series of incidents that have most frequently been referred to as the Colorado Labor Wars involved a struggle between the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and the mine operators, particularly the Cripple Creek Mine Owners' Association (CCMOA), during the period from 1903 to 1904. Like so many other fights between the miners and the owners of the mines, this was a brutal and bloody period in Colorado's history. A nearly simultaneous strike in Colorado's northern and southern coal fields was also met with a military response by the Colorado National Guard. Two scholars who studied American labor violence concluded, "There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as...