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Russell's Party Finds Gold
- When
- July 1858
- Where
- Mouth of Little Dry Creek, Pike's Peak Country
- Part of
- Pike's Peak Gold Rush begins
Russell's party found a placer deposit near Little Dry Creek in July 1858, yielding significant gold.
In the first week of July 1858, the party found a placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek that yielded about 20 troy ounces of gold, worth approximately 380 dollars at the time. The discovery was announced with great excitement by the Kansas City Journal of Commerce on 26 August 1858 under the headline "THE NEW ELDORADO!!"
Sources
- Pike's Peak gold rush Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-05
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