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The Denver area, part of the Territory of Kansas, was sparsely settled until the late 1850s.Occasional parties of prospectors came looking for gold, then moved on. In July 1858, Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek (in the present-day suburb of Englewood) that yielded about 20 troy ounces (620 g) of gold, the first significant gold ...
William Larimer Sr., Anne Larimer. Signature. William Larimer Jr. (October 24, 1809 – May 16, 1875) was an American businessman, investor, militia general, and politician who is best known as the founder of Denver, Colorado, in 1858. Larimer often went by "General Larimer", having acquired the title in the Pennsylvania Militia.
The Kansas Pacific Railway (KP) was a historic railroad company that operated in the western United States in the late 19th century. It was a federally chartered railroad, backed with government land grants. At a time when the first transcontinental railroad was being constructed by the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific, it tried and failed ...
Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory. A map of Kansas Territory in 1860. Arapahoe County was located in the territory's western panhandle, between Oro, Broderick, and Peketon Counties. Arapahoe County was a county of Kansas Territory in the United States that existed from August 25, 1855, until Kansas's admission into the Union on January 29, 1861.
Montana City, Colorado. Coordinates: 39°40′35.40″N 104°59′49.20″W. Reconstructed cabin and mine headframe at site of Montana City. Montana City was the first settlement in what was later to become Denver, Colorado. It was established during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush on the east bank of the South Platte River, just north of the ...
The region that is today the U.S. state of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains was a major migration route that was important to the spread of early peoples throughout the Americas.
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.
Denver (/ ˈdɛnvər / DEN-vər) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. [ 1 ] With a population of 715,522 as of the 2020 census, [ 23 ] a 19.22% increase since 2010, [ 11 ] it is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital.