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...
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Horace Tabor (section Pike's Peak Gold Rush)
also known as Maxey. In 1859, the Tabors moved west during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush with other "Fifty-Niners" to Denver (in Kansas Territory at the...
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Canyon Gold Rush, British Columbia (1858–61) Rock Creek Gold Rush, British Columbia (1859–60s)[clarification needed] Pike's Peak Gold Rush, Pikes Peak, Kansas...
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teams of thousands of gold seekers arrived and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush was under way. In the following two years, about 100,000 gold seekers flocked to...
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The Carolina gold rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, by a 12-year-old...
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History of Colorado (section Pike's Peak Gold Rush)
Participants in the Pike's Peak Gold Rush from 1858 to 1861 were called Fifty-Niners and many of the new arrivals settled in the Denver area. Gold in paying quantities...
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Pike's Peak Country was the name given to the gold mining region of the western United States near Pikes Peak during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1858–1861...
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Cheyenne (section Pike's Peak Gold Rush)
they could have adequate territory for sustenance. During the California Gold Rush, emigrants brought in cholera. It spread in mining camps and waterways...
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flower. Gold was discovered in the area of present-day Denver in 1858, and newspapers referred to the gold-mining area as "Pike's Peak". Pike's Peak or Bust...
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The Witwatersrand Gold Rush was a gold rush that began in 1886 and led to the establishment of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a part of the Mineral...
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Black Hills gold rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States. It began in 1874 following the Custer Expedition and reached a peak in 1876–77...
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The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina...
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Peak Pike's Peak gold rush, 1858–1861 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pikes Peak. If...
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whose course it paralleled for much of its length. In 1859, the Pike's Peak Gold Rush prompted increased exploration of the westward path from the Missouri...
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The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme...
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The Nome Gold Rush was a gold rush in Nome, Alaska, approximately 1899–1909. It is separated from other gold rushes by the ease with which gold could be...
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The Otago gold rush (often called the Central Otago gold rush) was a gold rush that occurred during the 1860s in Central Otago, New Zealand. This was the...
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portal Barbary Coast California Mining and Mineral Museum Pike's Peak gold rush Doré bar Gold in California Footnotes A New Jersey native, Marshall came...
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Range Urban Corridor. 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...
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Fifty-Niner (category Pikes Peak)
A "Fifty-Niner" is the term used for the gold seekers who streamed into the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory...
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California Gold Rush (1848–1855) Pike's Peak Gold Rush (1858–1860) Holcomb Valley gold rush (1860s) British Commonwealth: Australian gold rushes (1850s)...
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gold was discovered along the South Platte River in Arapahoe County (in present-day Englewood). This discovery precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush...
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Cariboo Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Colony of British Columbia, which later became the Canadian province of British Columbia. The first gold discovery...
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The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British...
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mining in 2007, having been inactive since 2001. Gold was discovered in 1858 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in the vicinity of present-day Denver in 1858...
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to the United States with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1858–1862 created an influx of settlers. On February 28, 1861...
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New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of...
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examined in a mix of found footage and live-action. "Seven Cities Of Gold by Rush Songfacts". www.songfacts.com. Retrieved 2018-05-06. The Seven Cities...
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base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Founded during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush on June 16, 1859, the mining camp was originally named Golden City...
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finding gold. The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves with others claimed to have discovered payable gold near...
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