The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76 by Eugene H. Berwanger, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2007, $40. The Pike’s Peak gold rush of 1859 brought an estimated 100,000 Anglo-American gold seekers to the frozen slopes of the Front Range in what was soon to be Colorado Territory. In 1865 only about 37,000 …
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