Wild West

COLORADO’S FIFTY-NINERS

his year marks the 160th anniversary of the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush (aka Colorado Gold Rush), when Fifty-Niners scoured the Rocky early days.) Colorado joined the Union on Aug. 1, 1876. Its pioneering Fifty-Niners are the subject of Henrietta E. Bromwell’s 1926 work , available online from the Denver Public Library Digital Collections [].

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