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Some miners pushed North, up to the Fraser River Valley of British Columbia.
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Economic boom, prospectors discovered gold near Pikes Peak.
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Thousands flocked to Colorado
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The Carson River Valley was the center of silver. It had one of the world's richest silver veins.
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Willam H. Seward negotiated and bought Alaska.
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A mob of masked man forced Chinese people out of there homes and out of Rico, Colorado.
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Prospectors discovered gold in the Klondike district o Canada's Yukon Territory, wich bordered Alaska
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By the summer of 1897, Yukon miners had found gold worth up to $1,000,000.
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Gold in Alaska in 1898 and 1902 attracted a lot of settlers.
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Mining increasedly became large companies jobs. Mining affected the enviroment and landscape of the West.