What to see in America . Longs Peak from the High-drive rest who went on into the mountains stayed. Gold in pay-ing quantities was far from common. One man, instead ofseeking a will-o-the-wisp fortune in the yellow sands, settleddown near Denver and became wealthy raising was known as Potato Clark. A printing outfit arrivedin Denver April 21, 1859, and two days later was issued thefirst number of the first paper printed in Colorado. Earlyin 1863 a fire destroyed much of the business portion ofDenver. The followincr summer a terrible drought parched the plains, and thencame a winter
What to see in America . Longs Peak from the High-drive rest who went on into the mountains stayed. Gold in pay-ing quantities was far from common. One man, instead ofseeking a will-o-the-wisp fortune in the yellow sands, settleddown near Denver and became wealthy raising was known as Potato Clark. A printing outfit arrivedin Denver April 21, 1859, and two days later was issued thefirst number of the first paper printed in Colorado. Earlyin 1863 a fire destroyed much of the business portion ofDenver. The followincr summer a terrible drought parched the plains, and thencame a winter, coldbeyond all previ-ous experience, thatcaused much suffer-ing among the peopleand killed manycattle. In the springCherry Creek, which A Bighorn Sheep was usually morC 2d. 402 What to See in America sand than stream, rose in fury, swept away the flimsybridges, and destroyed twenty lives and nearly a milliondollars worth of property. The Indians went on the war-path that year, killed a number of persons near the city,cut off all communications with the East, and left Denvergreatly alarmed with only six weeks supply of food. OnNovember 29 of the same year a government force of sevenhundred men made a surprise attack at dawn on an Indiancamp beside Big Sandy Creek, forty miles northeast fromFort Lyon, which was a frontier post on the north bank of the Arkansas, thirtymiles east of LaJunta. The soldiersshowed a savagerywhich the foe couldhardly have ex-ceeded. In thisSand Creek Mas-sacre, as it is called,they slew aboutnine hundred men,women, and chil-dren . Hardly one ofthe Indians whites lost tenin killed and fatallywounded. In the several pre-ceding years a largeamount of gold hadbeen taken out ofthe easily workedplacer mines, butnow the supp
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