The Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1858 ignited a frenzied migration to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, transforming the landscape and creating […]
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A Perilous Journey on the Smoky Hill Trail – An 1865 Eyewitness Account
In late 1865, a perilous journey along the Smoky Hill Trail in Kansas unfolded, vividly chronicled in a dispatch to […]