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Fifty-Niner
The Fifty-Niners were the estimated 100,000 gold seekers who streamed into the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory in 1859. The discovery of placer gold deposits along the South Platte River at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in northwestern Kansas Territory by a party of miners lead by William Greeneberry "Green" Russell in July 1858 precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
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