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Colorado story book pages 104-111 by Tomas J. Noel and Debra B. Faulkner https://Colorado encyclopedia.org/article/Colorado-gold-rush.

https://history. Denver library.org/news/one-kind-gold-rush-map https://www. Youtube. com/watch?v=y-

Yp2ZBaCPg https://www.historycolorado.org/story/going-places/2018/11/16/mountain-sun-many-names-pikes-peak

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Miners used dangerous chemicals to get gold from quartz. The chemicals leaked into streams affecting animals and people. It caused unstable hillsides and t also caused Acid mine drainage.

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Boom towns                                                                     

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Boom towns                                                                     

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A boom town is a town that grows very quickly. Auricular was Colorado's first boom town. Also Denver was first named st. Charies. Then it was named Denver City after the governor, James W.

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Rocks that had gold were called ore,Gold ran in strips though the rock. Also The gold found underground was called lode gold. Mining or digging for lode gold was harder than placer mining.

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There was a bunch of gold underground.Also Native people sometimes found bits of gold in streams. Also Zebulon pike never found any gold.

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                What's so great about gold

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                What's so great about gold

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No other metal has the same color.Also people wanted gold because it looked super beautiful. Gold is also valued because it is super hard to get.

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                            Mining camps

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                            Mining camps

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Life in a mining camp was hard; most men were homesick and lonely.Also Living conditions were unsanitary and illness was common. And the weather in the rocky mountains is cold and windy.

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                    Symbolism of pikes peak 

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                    Symbolism of pikes peak 

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When Pikes Peak appeared to weary immigrants  it encouraged people to keep going. Also For $600 gold seekers could get 3 yokes of oxen, wagons, tools, tents, flour, bacon and coffee for four people.$600 was half a year's pay for a clerk.

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When Pikes Peak appeared to weary immigrants  it encouraged them to keep going. Also if people saw Pikes Peak that meant they were close.

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When gold ran out people moved because there was no more gold in the town. When everyone moves away from a town it’s called a ghost town. There are more than 500 ghost towns still in Colorado.

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Some towns lasted when the gold ran out. Some people open stores to sell food shoes and tools to miners.Everyone found gold in Colorado. Also supply towns were towns that were building supplies.Some miners and merchants stayed and lived in Colorado.They came from all the united states and also Europe and Asia.

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Boosters were people who told lies to get people to come to their town. They got people to think their tow was great when it was actually not doing so good.

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                          Green Fines Gold 

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                          Green Fines Gold 

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William Green berry Russell Remembered somebody found some gold in Dry Creek. So he and his friend went to Dry Creek and In three weeks they found about 600 grams of gold.After William Green Russell found about 600  grams of gold. The word spread and people were coming to Colorado.

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Dirt streets turned into rivers of mud When it rained or snowed.Also hundreds of horses mules and oxen left poop. No one picked up garbage so it was a mess.Chemicals used for mining made people and animals sick. They blasted away mountain sides and cut down trees.

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Most men that came looking for gold found about $200 of gold. $200 of gold back then was about a year's worth of money. After people found out about the gold in Colorado people soon were coming to Colorado.

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Prospectors were people who came to Colorado looking for gold and silver.

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Stories of gold have been found in the rocky mountains.Pikes peak was named after Zebulon Pike in 1806 because he climbed half of the mountain.In 1807 Zebulon pike met James Purcell and they found gold in what is now called pikes peak.The discovery of gold in 1858-1859 drew thousands of people to Colorado.Current cities of Denver, Boulder, Black hawk, Breckenridge and Central City were made during the gold rush.When people were getting close to Colorado they could see Pikes Peak  and know that they were close.People from the East traveled to Colorado because of money problems and to start a new life

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Fifty niners traveled in covered wagons pulled by horses,mules or oxen. Some people walked because they couldn’t afford animals. Others followed the wrong path.About half of the people didn’t make it and had to go home.Some people traveled 600 miles to get there

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The place where cherry creek flowed into the south plate river looked promising. Also People use flat bottomed pans to get gold. Dirt would fall out with water.Gold is heavier than rocks so it would stay in the pan.