1859

Pikes Peakers found Denver City and this small log-cabin town when they arrived

This word is Spanish for "reddish in color"

This freed slave made enough money washing clothes for miners that she brought 26 family members to Colorado

Miners shoveled dirt into this long trough and let the flow of water remove lighter gravel.

1876

Pikes Peakers found Denver City and this small log-cabin town when they arrived

This is where the High Plains meet the foothills of the mountains and runs north and south along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains

This man was a booster and reported only good and exciting things about Denver City in h is newspaper, The Rocky Mountain News, to get people to move to Colorado

Panning or using a sluice box allowed miners to collect gold that was free in rivers

1861

This town is called "the richest square mile on earth"

The first gold discovered in Colorado was at the mouth of this river

This Cherokee Indian asked William Green Russell to come to Colorado to look for gold

These heavy metal machines were used to crush ore

1864

The first gold rush happened when gold was discovered in this California town in 1849

This river begins at Grand Lake and is 1,450 miles long - the longest river in the west

This man is credited with placer mining in the mountain streams of Idaho Springs

Holes are drilled into quartz or rock, dynamite is used to break the rock apart and is then taken to a stamp mill

1877

John Ralston first found gold in a creek near this present day Colorado city

The tallest peak in Colorado is 14,431 feet high

Although he was supposed to find hostile Indians, this man let soldiers to attack peaceful Indians gathered at Fort Lyon near Sand Creek

Nathaniel Hill discovered this easier method of removing gold from rock in Wales, Great Britain