The Pattern of Western Settlement: ExplorersThe Explorers looked at it… Fur TrappersThe Fur Trappers traipsed all over it… MinersBut the Miners established.

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The Pattern of Western Settlement: ExplorersThe Explorers looked at it… Fur TrappersThe Fur Trappers traipsed all over it… MinersBut the Miners established the first camps and towns RailroadsThe mining brought the Railroads… And the Railroads brought everybody else: Cowboys and FarmersCowboys and Farmers Loggers(Except around here, where it was Loggers and Farmers)

GOLD! At Sutter’s Mill, 1848 John A. Sutter

California Gold Rush, er’s

Two Views of San Francisco, Early 1850s  By 1860, almost 300,000 people had traveled to the Pacific coast.

Placer Mining

Placer Mining with a “Long Tom” & a Rocker

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ProspectingProspecting

Hydraulic Mining Malakoff Diggings today

Hard Rock Mining

Stamp Mill

Monte Cristo, Snohomish County 1889…

Gold and Silver Rushes California – 1849 … Cherry Creek, Colorado (Pikes Peak) 1859 Comstock (Nevada) 1859… Last Chance Gulch (Montana) 1864 Black Hills (South Dakota) 1876 Lots of others in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and.. Alaska 1897…

Comstock Lode Virginia City, Nevada In 1873, John Mackay struck one of the richest veins in history, the Big Bonanza, which produced more than $180 million in ore in just over four years.

Mining Centers: Spokane. Helena Sturgis. DenverSacramento.. Reno Boise.. Tombstone. Silver City

Pikes Peak

Gold! In Alaska … Clarence Barry James Clemons Frank Keller James Pickett William Stanley G.W. Anderson William Sloan Wilkerson Frank Phiscator Anderson Simms George Gray Charles Warden Jack Moffit James Coslow $45,000 50,000 10,000 20,000 10,000 25,000 10,000 10,000 70,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 12,000 15,000 Miners on board the Portland, along with the fortunes they brought back from the Klondike gold fields, :

‘98ers

The top of “the Golden Stair” Chilkoot Pass

Seattle Seattle’s population increased from 3000 people in 1880 to 240,000 in Growth was due to two major factors : The coming of the railroads The Alaska Gold Rush

Denny Regrade

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