Part one of term paper
In the year 1958 the hunt for gold was strong and people didn't realize how hard it was to pan for gold. The first sign of gold was in the Ralson Creek area with around one hundred men panning for gold. Many of these miners only made twenty-five cents a day. Most of these people didn't strike it rich so they went back home. The left over ...

Part two of term paper
... and set up towns and sold people plots of land for their cabins. The towns offered security and a community for the prospectors. Some choose that they would go and claim their own land. In the spring of 1859 somewhere around 100,000 people left for the hills of the Rockies in the hunt for gold. As many as half of those people didn't even make it to Colorado. A lot of the other people either turned back or died on the way. Most of the people who did make it returned home without the riches that ...