E6 - The Fifty-Eighters or The Parties
While Buffalo Roamed: The Wild Western Days of Colorado

E6 - The Fifty-Eighters or The Parties

2025-05-25

1858 is a huge year for Colorado, this is the story of the early risk-takers, the fifty-Eighters, who arrived at future Denver in 1858 (lured by rumors of gold).

First significant gold discovery - First attempted murder and trial - First summits of Pike's Peak by Anglos (men and a woman) - The Bloomer Girl - The Wheelbarrow Man - Garden of the Gods - First county officers arrive

 

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