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Gunn's New Map of Kansas to the Gold Mines
Pikes Peak or Bust! Miners traveled West during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush from 1858 to 1861, nicknamed "Fifty-Niners" during it's height in 1859. About 40 years before gold was struck in the Yukon Territory of Canada on August 16, 1896, miners were traveling West in the United States to find gold. This map from 1859 shows routes from the Missouri River to gold mines in Kansas. If you heard there was gold out West, would you put your hand to prospecting for gold, silver, and other precious metals?
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