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Rev. H. P. Roberts
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Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
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A Winter in the High Mountains, 1871 – 1872
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George Jackson’s Prospecting
March 24, 1869
The 1858 discoveries were teasers. George Jackson’s discovery of a substantial placer deposit in Chicago Creek near present-day Idaho Springs in January 1859, a lode gold (veins of gold embedded in rock) discovery at Gold Hill 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. Those adventurers quickly fanned out across the Front Range and traveled deep into the Rockies.
Encyclopedia Staff, “Colorado Gold Rush,” Colorado Encyclopedia, last modified January 07, 2020, https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/colorado-gold-rush
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Snow Over Berthoud Pass
“The Grand County Commissioners in July of 1877 had declared the trail from Grand Lake to the mining gulches of the Rabbit Ears Range to be a county road. However there was little county money to pay for improvements to make the trail a road. Private investors were reluctant to invest in wagon roads when there was the persistent rumor that railroads were coming spawned by the numerous railroad surveys that were performed in the area. Albert Selak, a Georgetown brewer, in August of 1878, organized a toll road that would branch off of the Georgetown, Empire, and Middle Park Wagon Road at the Ostrander Ranch on Red Dirt Hill, and proceed to Grand Lake and continue on to the Rabbit Ears Range mines and continue on into North Park and on to the Wyoming territory line. John Barbee invested in the Middle Park Toll Bridge Company, a toll bridge company that intended to build a bridge across the Grand River above the confluence of Willow Creek and the Grand River. However, this project languished, and was taken over by the county with an expenditure of $150.”
Sumrall, Steve. “Gaskill and the Wolverine and Ruby Mines.” Grand County History Stories, stories.grandcountyhistory.org/article/gaskill-and-wolverine-and-ruby-mines-0
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