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From the Pike's Peak Gold Rush... Burning of the Crystal Palace...
From the Pike's Peak Gold Rush... Burning of the Crystal Palace...
Item # 683851
October 07, 1858
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 1858 Page 3 has an article headed: "From The Kansas Gold Region", which we now call the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. At the time Pike's Peak was in the Western Kansas Territory, the Colorado Territory not being formed until 1861.
The report includes two reports, the first noting in part: "...direct from the gold mines near Pike's Peak...spent several months prospecting for gold in these mines...as many as 150 persons had been at the mines...that gold certainly exists in that whole section of country..." with much more.
Page 3 also has a half column report of the: "Burning of the Crystal Palace, New York".
Four pages, nice condition. The folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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