It was hard work, and most were unfit but optimistic that they would strike it rich.
The Pikes Peak Gold Rush.
Gold was discovered.
Pikes Peak, the Gold Rush and megachurches.
yes
It was hard work.
It got into high gear with the 1858 Pikes Peak Gold Rush.
Word reached them that there was Gold on Pikes Peak and the Rush was on.
YES
This is true
Gold was discovered in 1858 and by 1861, 100,000 people came to mine gold.
pikes peak
"Pike's Peak or Bust" was the slogan and vow for a large group of fortune seekers who rushed to the mining centers of the Rocky Mountains west of Denver from 1858 to 1875. Thousands of them were hoping to get rich by finding gold or silver in the hills