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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.
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More recently, high-quality crystals have been obtained from Pike's Peak, Colorado, where it is found associated with smoky quartz, orthoclase, and albite in a coarse granite or pegmatite.
** Pike's Peak Gold Rush begins in the Colorado Territory.
** Fifty-Niners stream into the Rocky Mountains of the western United States during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.
On hearing word of gold on the south slope of Pike's Peak he made his big strike on July 4, 1891, near the present town of Victor, Colorado, in the Cripple Creek mining district.
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!
The Pike's Peak Gold Rush, which followed the California Gold Rush by approximately one decade, produced a dramatic but temporary influx of immigrants into the Pike's Peak Country of the Southern Rocky Mountains.
The rush was exemplified by the slogan " Pike's Peak or Bust!
The city is an historic mining settlement founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, which came to be known as the " Richest Square Mile on Earth.
On May 6, 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, John H. Gregory found a gold-bearing vein ( the Gregory Lode ) in Gregory Gulch between Black Hawk and Central City.
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* Pike's Peak Granite Batholith
On the north side of Denver it is joined somewhat inconspicuously by Clear Creek, which descends from the mountains to the west in a canyon that was the cradle of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
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Stagecoach driver Bill Turner, who drove the route for the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express, told the Colorado Transcript in 1909 how and when this changed:
This discovery precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
Pike's and Gold
This discovery precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
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This discovery precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
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Arapahoe County calls itself " Colorado's First County " since its origins predate the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
This discovery precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
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Pike's and later
Although initially victorious at the Battle of Pea Ridge ( Elkhorn Tavern ) in March, Pike's unit was defeated later in a counterattack, after falling into disarray.
Less than fifty years later, Pike's island 72 was selected by Captain Orrin Smith as a townsite on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
Kendall dismissed Pike's suggestion, but later spots Pike whispering to Dunbar.
Pike's and known
* Pike's words for Dixie (" Everybody's Dixie ", also known as " To Arms in Dixie ")
Although the name of the company has changed over the years, the company now known as Roxen Internet Software employed many Pike developers, and provided resources for Pike's development.
Little is known about Christopher Pike's personal life.
With the onset of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858, an ancient Native American trail along the Smoky Hill River provided the shortest, fastest route west across Kansas, becoming known as the Smoky Hill Trail.
The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway ( also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway ) is an Abt rack system cog railway in Colorado, USA, climbing the well-known mountain Pikes Peak.
) The gold rush brought 100, 000 gold seekers to the area known as the Pike's Peak Country, which included Arapahoe County in the Kansas Territory and the unorganized southwestern corner of the Nebraska Territory.
Pike's and Colorado
* Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, Manitou Springs, Colorado.
Pike's company made several errors and ended up in Spanish territory in southern present-day Colorado, where the Americans built a fort to survive the winter.
File: Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway SL1. jpg | Preserved Baldwin Engine No. 1 on public display at the Colorado Railroad Museum, Dec 2007.
File :" I helped to build Pike's Peak railroad myself ," Colorado, U. S. A, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views 2. jpg |" I helped to build Pike's Peak railroad myself ," Colorado, U. S. A, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
File :" Half Way ," Pike's Peak, Colorado, U. S. A, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. png |" Half Way ," Pike's Peak, Colorado, U. S. A, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
File: Fourteen thousand feet above the sea, Pike's Peak, Colorado, U. S. A, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. jpg | Fourteen thousand feet above the sea, Pike's Peak, Colorado, U. S. A, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
The other two on display are located in Manitou Springs, Colorado: one ( No. 2 ) near city hall and the other ( No. 5 ) at the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway depot.
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