Rocky Mountain West: Colorado, Wyoming, & Montana, 1859-1915 (Histories of the American Frontier Series)

xiv, 290 pp. "The Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1859 brought dreamers and drifters by the thousands who dug up streams and hillsides in the Rockies seeking their wealth. Mines and towns soon stretched from Colorado to Montana in a pell--mell rush to extract the vast mineral wealth of gold, silver, copper, and coal."