Who was the first person to find gold in colorado?
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Who found the first gold of any amount in Colorado? Who found the first substantial amount of gold in Colorado?
Lewis Ralston
George A. Jackson
Gold mining in Colorado
first person to find gold in Colorado
Gold mining in Colorado Pike's Peak Gold Rush History of Colorado Georgia Gold Rush Gold mining in the United States Telluride, Colorado California Gold Rush Francisco Vázquez de Coronado History of the Grand Canyon area History of Denver
<b>Gold</b> mining in <b>Colorado</b>, a state of the United States, has been an industry since 
1858. ... The Cripple Creek district, far from the mineral belt, was <b>one</b> of the last 
<b>gold</b> districts to ... he wrote, &quot;We called this Ralston&#39;s Creek because a <b>man</b> of 
that name <b>found gold</b> here. ... It was the <b>first</b> substantial <b>gold</b> discovery in 
<b>Colorado</b>. The Pike&#39;s Peak <b>Gold</b> Rush was the boom in <b>gold</b> prospecting and mining in the 
Pike&#39;s Peak ... In the <b>first</b> week of July 1858, Green Russell and Sam Bates <b>found</b> 
a small ... As early as the spring of 1859, <b>people</b> raced to the Pike&#39;s Peak country. 
... This problem was eventually solved and <b>gold</b> and silver mining in <b>Colorado</b>&nbsp;... Lewis Ralston dipped his <b>gold</b> pan in a stream flowing into Clear ... Creek 
because a <b>man</b> of that name <b>found gold</b> here.” ... the site of <b>Colorado&#39;s first gold</b> 
discovery is now in Arvada, <b>Colorado</b>. The Georgia <b>Gold</b> Rush was the second significant <b>gold</b> rush in the United States 
and the <b>first</b> ... Many Georgia miners moved west when <b>gold</b> was <b>found</b> in the 
Sierra Nevada in 1848, ... <b>One</b> of the <b>first</b> public accounts was on August 1, 1829, 
when the Georgia Journal (a Milledgeville newspaper), ran the following notice. <b>Gold</b> mining in the United States has taken place continually since the discovery 
of <b>gold</b> at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The <b>first</b> documented 
occurrence of <b>gold</b> was in Virginia in 1782. ... The <b>first</b> important <b>gold</b> discoveries 
in <b>Colorado</b> were in the Central City-Idaho Springs district in January 1859. Only 
<b>one</b>&nbsp;... Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the 
southwestern portion of the U.S. state of <b>Colorado</b>. The town is a former silver 
mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains. The 
<b>first gold</b> mining claim was made in the mountains above Telluride in ... Although 
<b>gold</b> telluride minerals were never actually <b>found</b> in the mountains&nbsp;... The California <b>Gold</b> Rush (1848–1855) was a <b>gold</b> rush that began on January 
24, 1848, when <b>gold</b> was <b>found</b> by James W. Marshall at Sutter&#39;s Mill in Coloma, 
California. The news of <b>gold</b> brought approximately 300,000 <b>people</b> to California 
from ... The <b>first gold found</b> in California was made on March 9, 1842. Francisco&nbsp;... Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján was a Spanish conquistador and 
explorer who led a ... His expedition marked the <b>first</b> European sightings of the 
Grand Canyon and the ... of the expedition, with the mission to <b>find</b> the mythical 
Seven Cities of <b>Gold</b>. ... He traveled up the Sea of Cortés and then the <b>Colorado</b> 
River. The known <b>human</b> history of the Grand Canyon area stretches back 10,500 years
, when the <b>first</b> evidence of <b>human</b> presence in the area is <b>found</b>. ... The Paiute 
settled the plateaus north of the <b>Colorado</b> River and the Cerbat built their ... 
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado on its quest to <b>find</b> the fabulous Seven Cities of 
<b>Gold</b>. The history of Denver details the history of the City, and County of Denver, 
<b>Colorado</b>, the United ... Denver at <b>first</b> was a mining settlement, where <b>gold</b> 
prospectors panned <b>gold</b> from the sands of nearby Cherry Creek and the South 
Platte River. ... Many <b>people</b> left <b>Colorado</b>, and often those who stayed lacked 
continuous work&nbsp;...
Lewis Ralston
Gold mining in Colorado