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 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 50 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 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 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 Wayne C. Temple and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 13 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 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 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 Letters of the Pike s Peak Gold Rush written by Libeus Barney and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southwest Historical Series Pike s Peak gold rush guidebooks of 1859 written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 372 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 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 The Great Pike s Peak Rush Or Terry in the New Gold Fields written by Edwin Legrand Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry and his dog, Shep, accompany Harry Revere on a six hundred mile trek across to Colorado, spurred on by the lure of gold. It is the great "Pike's Peak or Bust" rush of 1859, when boys were called upon to play the part of men.
Download or read book Dr L J Russell and the Pike s Peak Gold Rush of 1858 1859 written by Samuel Wood Geiser and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 576 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 Cripple Creek Bob Womack and The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth written by Linda Wommack and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
