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The Pikes Peak Courier — Teller County; The Pikes Peak Bulletin - Manitou Springs, Cascade and Green Mountain Falls [4] Pine River Times — Bayfield; Post Independent Citizen Telegram — Glenwood Springs and Rifle; Redstone Review - Lyons, Colorado (Monthly) Rio Blanco Herald Times — Meeker Rangely; The Rocky Mountain Collegian — Fort ...
The newspaper's primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, as well as the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grand Prairie. The Fort Worth/Arlington metro area is the western part of the fourth-largest U.S. metropolitan area, the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington combined statistical area. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most ...
Gold prospectors in the Rocky Mountains of western Kansas Territory. The Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.
News-Press headquarters in St. Joseph. The company traces it roots back to the St. Joseph Gazette which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel into the Old West along the Oregon Trail and California Trail. It was the only newspaper that was sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express.
Gold production up to 1990 was 21,000,000 troy ounces (650 t) worth about US$17 billion at 2008 prices) [clarification needed], making it the most productive gold-producing district in Colorado, [19] and the third-most productive in the United States (after Carlin, Nevada and Lead, South Dakota). Many of the mines in the district were quite ...
Pikes Peak, the easternmost "fourteener" in the United States. Almost immediately following the arrival of railroads beginning in 1871, the city's location at the base of Pikes Peak and the Rocky Mountains made it a popular tourism destination. Tourism is the third largest employer in the Pikes Peak region, accounting for more than 16,000 jobs ...
The town of Denver had donated 53 lots to the Leavenworth City & Pike's Peak Express Company and celebrated the first arrival with an "extra" published by the Rocky Mountain News. The returning coach to Leavenworth brought with it $3,500 worth of gold and was celebrated with speeches and music. [8] [9]
Pike's Peak Country was the name given to the gold mining region of the western United States near Pikes Peak during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1858–1861. The Pike's Peak Country included the region of western Kansas Territory roughly west of the 104th meridian west and the region of southwestern Nebraska Territory roughly west of the 104th meridian west and south of the 41st parallel north.