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Mineing boom

By twodavid

  • Gold

    Gold
    Goald was found in Colorado near Pikes Peak

  • Start

    Start
    mineing boom begins

  • Run

    Thousands of people headed to Colorado for gold

  • More gold

    gold and silver was found in Carson River Valley

  • Rich

    $500 million worth of gold and silver found in the Caarson River Vally

  • immigrants

    immigrants
    Chinese inhabitants of Puerto Rico, and Colorado were drove out of towns by a mob of masked men

  • Land

    after seward bought Alaska from Russia gold was found in the Klondike

  • Go

    more and more miners headed to the Klondike 1898-1902

  • Yukon

    Yukon miners got more then $1 million worth of gold

  • take over

    mineing increasingly became the task of large companies then gratly affected the landscape and envirment of the west