Hard Gold (21 page)
Authors: Avi
Thanks to the Colorado Historical Society and its director, Rebecca Lintz, and James K. Jeffrey of the Western History Department, Denver Public Library. For readings for historical accuracy, I need to thank Kathy Yuran and Carol A. Edwards. Particular appreciation goes to Emily Schultz of Hyperion Books for Children for her exhaustive and exhausting work in support of the
I
Witness
books.
Bennett, Robert, comp.
We’ll All Go Home in the Spring. Personal Accounts and Adventures as Told by the Pioneers of the West.
Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press, 1984.
Brown, Robert L.
The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush.
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1985.
Eggenhofer, Nick.
Wagons, Mules and Men. How the Frontier Moved West.
New York: Hastings House, 1961.
Freedman, Russell.
Children of the Wild West.
New York: Clarion, 1983.
Helm, Mike, comp.
Conversations with Pioneer Women.
Eugene, OR: Rainy Day Press, 1981.
Klinglesmith, Dan, and Patrick Soran.
Colorado: A History in Photographs.
Denver: Altitude Publishing, 1998.
Marcy, Randolph B.
The Prairie Traveler.
New York: Berkley Publishing, n.d. Reprint of 1859 guidebook.
Sanford, Mollie Dorsey.
Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories 1857–1866.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1959.
——.
My Folks Came in a Covered Wagon: A Treasury of Pioneer Stories.
Topeka, KS: Capper Press, 1956.
Voynick, Stephen M.
Colorado Gold.
Missoula: Mountain Press, 1992.
West, Elliot.
Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
Young, Bob and Jan. Pikes Peak or Bust.
The Story of the Colorado Settlement.
New York: Messner, 1970.
Zomonski, Stanley W. and Teddy Keller.
The Fifty-Niners: A Denver Diary.
Denver: Sage Books, 1961.
Image
courtesy of the University of Iowa
Image
from
The Hub,
Vol. 24, March 1883
Map
and images
Fort Kearny
and
If you took
courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society
Image
from
Pike’s Peak Gold
by John M. Eatwell and David K. Clint III, Las Vegas, Nevada: Effective Graphics, 2000.
Image
courtesy of the Union Pacific Museum
Image
based on a blueprint by Ivan Collins, courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society
Courtesy of the Denver Public Library:
Image
from
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine,
Vol. 49, issue 296
Image
from
Harper’s Weekly,
December 23, 1871
Paintings
Try counting
,
That’s a stern
,
This will give you
, and
With the days
by William Henry Jackson
Images
After the long
and
Denver
from
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,
August 20, 1859
Image
from
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,
December 15, 1860
Images
This is Denver
,
A prospector
,
This is Boulder
, and
Looks like
from the DPL Western History Collection
Courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society:
Images
Crossing streams
and
The trail west
from
Harper’s Weekly,
August 13, 1859
Image
I really did
from
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,
May 21, 1859
Image
With no regular
from
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,
November 27, 1886
Images
If you look
,
A Bloomer girl!
,
I loved watching
,
A picturesque
,
Indian trading
, and
An Indian camp
courtesy of the New York Public Library
Map
from
Precious Dust: The American Gold Rush Era
by Paula Mitchell Marks, New York: William Morrow, 1994
Images
A “go-backer”
,
Prospectors
,
An arastra
, and
The artists
from
Beyond the Mississippi
by Albert E. Richardson, New York: Bliss & Co., 1867
Image
An early view
from the pamphlet titled “Denver City and Auraria, the Commercial Emporium of the Pike’s Peak Gold Regions in 1859,” by Theodore Schrader, lithographer. St. Louis: 1859
Image
Panning for gold.
© Corbis
Image
The stagecoach
from
Harper’s Weekly,
January 27, 1866
Photograph of
sculpture
courtesy of Avi
AVI
has written more than seventy books, including the Newbery Award winner
Crispin: The Cross of Lead.
Other titles of Avi’s published by Disney • Hyperion Books are
Iron Thunder: A Civil War Novel; Crispin: At the Edge of the World;
and
The Book Without Words.
He lives with his family in Colorado.