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Title
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Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859
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Description
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Summary of a guidebook from 1859 evidently compiled by Captain John Gunnison (a military officer and author dying in 1853) and/or William Gilpin, "called the prophet of the West." Detailed description of the book, entitled "Guide to the Kansas Gold Mines at Pike's Peak," about the "Gold Route" from Kansas City to Pawnee Fork, with a theoretical discussion by Colonel Gilpin on the physical geography and geology of America.
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Date
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1941
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Object Type
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Book
