Pike's Peak Gold Rush

fort and trading station there in the early 1800. Still, this area became widely known during the Gold Rush in California. Soon gold was discovered in nowadays Washington State, which led for the first settlement New Market or Tumwater foundation. The gold rush to Washington State was affectionately called the Pike's Peak Gold Rush or later Colorado Gold rush. The participants of this gold rush were called "Fifty-Niners”, because the influx of the people traveling in 1859 to this area.…

know that Native American Indians weren’t as bad as Hollywood liked to portray them. With such animosity between whites and Native Americans during 1864, Indian civilizations became substantially extinct. With the rising popularity and value of mining gold during 1864 and the years following shortly after, soldiers and white Americans increasingly began to overtake the Native Americans homes, reservations, food supply, and everything they owned. Because of these heightening issues between the…

Native Americans started coming to North America, but while they were there whites started coming and taking over their land. Natives had to adapt to many different things going on around them. Native Americans looked for new opportunities in the west but they lacked money and it made their experience bad. They were dealing with people not liking them and taking advantage of them. The Natives also had to worry about fighting such as battles like the Sand Creek massacre. Native Americans had…