A wagon train crossing the Platte River during the Colorado Gold Rush, with Native American woman sitting on the riverbank. Illustration by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902). Harper's Weekly, August 13, 1859. The Pike's Peak Gold Rush, later known as the Colorado Gold Rush, occurred in Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory from mid-1858 to early-1861.

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