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Wikimedia Commons/SMU Central University Libraries A Shoe Shine and an Elevator Ride When young Dick Rowland stepped into Sarah Page’s elevator on May 30,...
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Wikimedia Commons/SMU Central University Libraries A Shoe Shine and an Elevator Ride When young Dick Rowland stepped into Sarah Page’s elevator on May 30,...
Wikimedia Commons/Boston & Ziegler Cloud City Leadville (Colorado) Leadville went from 5,000 miners to 30,000 treasure hunters in three years. Even Horace Tabor struck...
Wikimedia Commons/Cantwell, George G. The Klondike Gold Rush Chilkoot Trail In 1897, word spread that gold lined the streams of Canada’s Klondike. Within months,...
Shutterstock Bodie, California W.S. Bodey found gold in the hills north of Mono Lake in summer 1859. He worked with three other prospectors who...
Shutterstock Bannack, Montana Sheriff Henry Plummer built the gallows that would end his own life. In May 1863, the citizens of Bannack elected him...
Shutterstock Sutter’s Fort John Sutter built a fort in 1839 in the heart of California, dreaming of creating his own empire called New Helvetia....
Wikimedia Commons/Anna-Katharina Stöcklin South Pass City, Wyoming In 1867, South Pass City was the biggest thing between Salt Lake and Denver. Saloons lined the...
Shutterstock Lost Dutchman State Park, Arizona Lost Dutchman State Park sits in the shadow of the Superstition Mountains, where gold miners once searched for...
Shutterstock Skagway, Alaska – Skagway, Alaska is basically a time capsule of 1890s Gold Rush drama (complete with actual saloons). This tiny town of...
Shutterstock Goldfield Ghost Town, Arizona Goldfield was supposed to die in 1898 when its gold ran out. Instead, this mining town on the edge...