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23 septembre 2013
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2
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9781783332779
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English
Publié par
Date de parution
23 septembre 2013
Nombre de lectures
2
EAN13
9781783332779
Langue
English
Title Page
50 QUICK FACTS ABOUT COLORADO
By
Wayne Wheelwright
Publisher Information
50 Quick Facts about Colorado
Published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Copyright © 2013 Wayne Wheelwright
The right of Wayne Wheelwright to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Facts The area that is now the state of Colorado has been inhabited by man for around 13,000 years. The first people to live there were Native Americans and the Lindenmeier Site in Larimer County is an archaeological site that contains artefacts that go back as far as 8710BCE. European settlers were brought to the area by westward expansion and some of Colorado’s earliest recorded history covers treaties and wars over territory. In 1849 and 1850 gold seekers heading towards the California Gold Rush found gold whilst panning streams in the South Platte River Valley at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. William Greenbury Russell led a party of Cherokee golf seekers from Georgia to search properly for gold along the river and found a small placer deposit in the first week around five miles above Cherry Creek. The Territory of Colorado existed from 1861 to 1876 and it’s boundaries were the same as the current boundaries of Colorado today, the territory was admitted to the Union as a state on August 1 st , 1876 becoming the 38 th state of the United States. The Colorado War was an Indian War between the white settlers and militia from the Territory of Colorado and it’s neighbouring regions and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. One of the notable acts during the Colorado war was an attack against the camp of Southern Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle that would come to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.