The prospect of a visit to Colorado might conjure up visions of ... The Rockies are also littered with ghost towns, reminders of the gold and silver booms of the 1880s. Some are deserted, little ...

And where did miners eat their lunches? This year marks the 160th anniversary of the Colorado Gold Rush, which geared up 11 years after the California Gold Rush of 1848. Prospectors didn’t ...

Controversy swirled around the event after rare Poudre River gold mined by Freddy Dodge — the Colorado gold miner made famous by Discovery Channel's "Gold Rush" — was pulled from the auction ...

While visiting this eerie, not-quite-deserted Colorado ghost town that once bigger than Denver, you'll want to keep your eyes ...

And after that hard labor ... [miner] John Gregory’s discovery of lode gold up here in May of 1859 that kind of made Colorado’s gold rush permanent,” Forsyth said.

(CBS4)- A reality show that has divided a community over gold ... Rush" showed up to help mine the site two years ago. Neighbors complained about the noise and even filed a lawsuit after Park ...

Twenty years after the Gold Rush, the Colorado Silver Boom occurred in 1879 causing hordes of silver seekers to rush the Rockies. Horace Tabor, known as “The Bonanza King of Leadville,” joined ...

Madness, Murder, and Mayhem in the Colorado Rockies By Ian Neligh (Westwinds Press) Colorado was founded on gold. In 1859, some 100,000 people joined the rush to the Rockies, and in a couple of ...

Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment. These ghost towns, relics of the Gold Rush era, continue to haunt the ...

This boom was similar to the one created by the discovery of gold in Colorado some 80 years earlier. Some of the soldiers who learned to ski in Colorado returned after World War II and founded ski ...

Larry Frank Jr. came to write the book "Colorado's Great Depression Gold Rush: The Oliver Twist Tunnel ... it was Elder's family's story, after all — but Elder insisted Frank write the book.