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Population
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Western US is less populated than East US; Geographic Center: North Central Kansas; Population Center: South Central Missouri; Population distribution is more uneven in the west than the east; Most people in the West are clustered in one of six settlement nuclei
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Denver, Colorado
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Capital of the "Rocky Mountain Empire"; Pikes Peak Gold Rush, first gold discovered in placer deposits (tributaries emerged from the Colorado Front Range); When placer deposits were exhausted, hard rock mining, began; the great commercial mart and capital of Colorado; metropolis and commercial center of the entire country; a lot of wholesale and retail mercantile houses; private hanks; a commercial point and point of distribution; governing the entrance to half-a-dozen different canyons
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Fort Collins-Greeley
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Agricultural center of the Rocky Mountains; Miners needed food, and local farmers have a location advantage in the remote market; the rain shadow of the mountains, but streams made irrigation possible; best irrigated section of the mountains
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Pueblo, Colorado
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"The Pittsburgh of the West"; fuel (coal); Useful minerals; Abundant water supply; greatest smelting city of precious metals on the continent and its steel plant is one of the most complete of its kind in the union; the only "steel city" yet developed west of the Mississippi
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Vacation capital; sanitarium, tourist attraction: Pikes Peak; Go to "revive yourself"; Ski resorts (western side of the Rockies); increasing accessibility of the Colorado Rockies; speedy train service
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Boulder, Colorado
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The University of Colorado; major research universities and environmental amenities; Many young adults come to Denver to live near the mountains and then look for work
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