DENVER (KDVR) — While the gold rush that brought thousands to what eventually became Colorado was called the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, the discovery that kicked it off happened far away from that ...

The name is and will be the Pikes ... to a 1836 map as the landmark's earliest, circulated reference to Pike. "Pike's Peak or bust," went the popular phrase for the 1859 gold rush.

The imposing mountain beckoned 19th-century, fortune-seeking pioneers, inspiring the Gold Rush cry, "Pikes Peak or Bust!" Later, the majestic vistas atop this pink granite peak led Katharine Lee ...

The Colorado Gold Rush, better known as the "Pikes Peak Gold Rush," is America's most profitable afterthought. Miners who had rushed across the continent in the 1849 California Gold Rush ...