Pikes Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks Of 1859

Colorado's Pikes Peak Gold Rush was an event of enormous social and cultural significance, changing the basic economy and lifestyle of the entire region. Pikes Peak became synonymous with the wild westward rush that ensued.

"The contemporary reports and letters reproduced here not only tell the general story of events, but they portray as well the feeling of the time and reflect the hopes and disappointments of the would-be miners and commonwealth founders. From these colorful and interesting records we gain a more adequate conception of the character and importance of this great stampede - one of the typical and outstanding gold rushes of Western history"--from Introduction.