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A Guidebook To Colorado
Fremont's third expedition. Annexation of Texas makes a part of Colorado United States' territory. 1848. Fremont's fourth expedition, under private auspices. Western Colorado ceded by Mexico to the United States. 1853. Expedition of Captain Gunnison. Fifth expedition (private) of Fremont. 1854. Territory of Kansas organized; extends westward to the Rockies. 1855. Arapahoe County, K. T.? nominally organized. 1857-1858. Captain R. B. Marcy's expedition through the mountains of Colorado. 1858. Discovery of gold by members of the Green Russell expedition. The Lawrence party prospect streams in the Pike's Peak region. Settlements started at Cherry Creek, Boulder, and other places. 1859. Rush to Pike's Peak. Mining towns spring up in the mountains. 1860. Another remarkable migration to " Cherry Creek and Pike's Peak." Placer gold obtained to the value of $2,000,000. II.
TERRITORIAL PERIOD, 1861-1876 1861. Treaty of Fort Wise concluded.
Territory of Colorado formed, and William Gilpin, of Missouri,
appointed Governor. A regiment of Colorado's citizen-soldiers
distinguish themselves in two bloody engagements with Confederates
in New Mexico, breaking " the far left wing of the Rebellion,"
A Guidebook To Colorado
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