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Pike's Peaker in full regalia. The first
illustration to appear in the Rocky Mountain News
Two main groups of gold-seekers came to Colorado in the
summer of 1858. The "Russell" group from Georgia
founded Auraria while the "Lawrence" group from
Lawrence, Kansas laid out Montana City near where present
West Evans Avenue crosses the Platte River in Denver. The
"City" was abandoned by the winter and the group
laid out the St. Charles townsite on the East bank of Cherry
Creek. This letter was sent by a member of the Lawrence
group.
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30 November 1858 Montana, Cherry Creek Gold
Mines, Kansas Territory to Michigan
Privately to Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory
where it entered the mails a month later
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Miner's letter mentions:
"Here I am in the Gold
Mines (so called) & I guess it is properly named,
for I have seen the gold...There is quite a rush
here to the mines, as there are within a few miles
of this place over 500 persons. There were only
about 30 or 40 when we arrived."
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