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A Gold Hunter's Experience
I have often been asked to write an account of my Pike's Peak Expedition in search of gold. The following attempt has been made up partly from memory and partly from old letters written at the time to my sister in the east. Early in the summer of 1860 I had a bad attack of gold fever. In Chicago the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since the panic of 1857 there had been three years of general depression, money was scarce, there was little activity in business, the outlook was discouraging, and I, like hundreds of others, felt blue. Gold had been discovered in the fall of 1858 in the vicinity of Pike's Peak, by a party of Georgian prospectors, and for several years afterward the whole gold region for seventy miles to the north was called "Pike's Peak." Others in the East heard of the gold discoveries and went West the next spring; so that[Pg 6] during the summer of 1859 a great deal of prospecting was done in the mountains as far north as Denver and Boulder Creek. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 29335
Author: Hambleton, Chalkley J.
Release Date: Jul 6, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English
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