https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676 Made with serendipity en-us 2021-11-29 17:30:54 UTC 2025-03-30 17:15:03 UTC hello@padlet.com lauraincb https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923319860 John Ralston found a trace of gold in a Creek next to today's town of Arvada]; he only found a few flakes.]]> 2021-12-01 17:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923319860 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923650235 Later the city of Denver would be built where the Rusells found gold]]> 2021-12-01 19:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923650235 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923658310 - 9 years later a man who had traveled with Ralston remembered the Colorado gold discovery. 

- For two weeks they panned for gold and only found a few speaks 

- Ralston and his men hit the jackpot in Cherry Creek, they found $200  worth of  gold.

- Many people only found $200 worth of gold in a year.]]> 2021-12-01 19:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923658310 lauraincb https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923665823 - Some people traveled 600 miles on foot!



- Most of them were men but some women and children made the journey too.



- They pushed hand crates with their belongings.



- They ran out of food and water before they got to Colorado.


-People that could not afford animals walked the entire way.


- The trips across the plains usually took 6 to 8 weeks.]]> 2021-12-01 19:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1923665823 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925555144 Rocks that had gold in them were called ore


-Sometimes ore was found underground but some of it was near the surfs  ]]> 2021-12-02 16:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925555144 lauraincb https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925575353 - Santa Fe trail or new gold rush trials that go into the state of Colorado.

-One route followed the South Platte River; the South Platte also followed the Arkansas River. ]]> 2021-12-02 16:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925575353 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925593070 - George A. Jackson found half of an ounce of gold  in Idaho springs.

- In the same moth six men found gold in Gold Run Creek.

- The third biggest mountain discovery was when John Gergory found gold along the North Fork or Clear Creek.]]> 2021-12-02 16:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925593070 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925605214 A Boomtown is a town that grows quickly.


-Auraria was the first of Colorado's boomtowns.


-On the opposite bank of Creery Creek some people started the town of St. Charles.


-Larimer's group took over the land of St. Charles and started their own town they called it Denver in honor of James A. Denver.]]> 2021-12-02 16:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925605214 lauraincb https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925605873 Some towns lasted after the gold ran out; many people needed food, water clothing, tools, machines and buildings to stay in.

- They came from all over the U.S.A to come to Colorado.

- Supply towns had all the supplies that people needed to survive.]]> 2021-12-02 16:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925605873 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925609211 - When gold in a town ran low , people had no way to earn a living.

- 500 ghost towns and more still haunt Colorado.]]> 2021-12-02 16:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925609211 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925624044 When miners arrived, town builders made lots of money.


-They sold big land to people who did not have homes, business and farmland.


-When snow or rain came to Denver's dirt streets it would become muddy rivers.]]> 2021-12-02 16:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925624044 lauraincb https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925636774 The dust flakes and little nuggets that were found in streams were called free gold or placer gold.

-It was named free because it was free for the rock it came from.

-Some prospectors were tired of squatting for many hours besides streams panning for gold.


- They made sluices a sluice was a wooden box on a rocker.


- Any gold flakes were left on the bottom.  ]]> 2021-12-02 16:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925636774 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925651000 - Willam Byers started the Rocky Mountain News before the Pikes Peak gold rush came to life

- Boosters told people amazing things about the glorious towns. 

-Byers' reports made Pikes Peak country sound amazing.

- The story's  got a lot of people to come to the glorious state of Colorado.

- Once here, people  became angry because Bryers had lied to the people around the world.

- The booklets had made maps to help people on their Journey west many of the people who spent the time to write these guides had never even been to the region.

- Their advice would often be wrong; they just wanted to make money by selling informational books.  ]]> 2021-12-02 17:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925651000 lauraincb https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925672169 Major gold mining close to the mountains didn't begin until the 1890s with the Cripple Creek strike but as the easternmost of Colorado Fourteeners. The appearance of Pikes Peak on the western horizon served as an encouraging singpost westward immigrants in 1859. The mount came to repesent the rush to the Rockies. ]]> 2021-12-02 17:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925672169 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925937668 In 1807 explorers Zebulon M. Pike met trapper James Purcell in Santa Fe and learned that Purcell had found gold in the area eventually know as the Pike Peak region.

-In 1850 Cherokee Indians on their way to the state of California and they discovered little pieces of gold which is called placer gold.

-Gold was discovered near present day Denver.

-More excitement was stirred in the summertime in 1858 when the Russell brothers William, Oliver and Levi along with John Beck and a party of Cherokees and whites from Georgia reached Ralston Creek where they found a little bit of gold.

-They headed upstream along the South Platte past Cherry Creek and on to Little Dry Creek in present-day Englewood, where they found paying quantities of placer gold.

-In 1858 the discoveries were teasers, George Jackson's discovery of a substantial placer deposit in Chicago Creek near the present-day Idaho Springs in January 1859, and John Gregory's finding of lode gold near Black Hawk fueled a Gold Rush which drew tens of thousands of prospectors into the region during the spring and summer of 1859.]]> 2021-12-02 19:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925937668 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925957055 - John Sutter owned the mill; he also ran a large farm with 12,000 head of cattle and 10,000 sheep; the farm produced 40,000 bushels of wheat. 

- Jenny Wimmer, put the rock in a pot of chemicals and During Marshall’s walk he looked into a shallow creek and what he saw shocked him. It was a shiny rock. He pounded the object between two rocks. The object the rock was actually gold it would not dissolve in the pot of chemicals.

- No workers could keep it a secret; they spread the word by writing to their friends on March 15, 1848 the Californian, a San Francisco newspaper, broke the story. Gold Mine Found the paper reported. 

- About 3,000 men came from Oregon to see if they could find more of the precious yellow metal. Still  most people did not believe the  story was actually true.]]> 2021-12-02 19:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1925957055 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1938677064 Colorado story book by Thomas j. noel &  Debra b. Faulkner.

- https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/colorado-gold-rush

-Colorado gold rush Barbara A. somervill

]]> 2021-12-09 16:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1938677064 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1945038258 This video is how gold miners mined in the 1800's.]]> 2021-12-13 16:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1945038258 https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1947476646 Gold mining quiz!!!]]> 2021-12-14 16:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lauraincb/smia904mqtyjx676/wish/1947476646