THE GREAT PIKE'S PEAK RUSH OR TERRY IN THE NEW GOLD FIELDS BY EDWIN L. SABIN "These mountains are supposed to contain minerals, precious stones and gold and silver ore. It is but late that they have taken the name Rocky Mountains; by all the old travelers they are called the Shining Mountains, from an infinite number of crystal stones of an amazing size, with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a great distance." --_From a Geography One Hundred Years Ago._ NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY. [Illustration: "NONE OF THAT, MR. IKE CHUBBERS!" REPEATED HARRY, STOUTLY FORCING THE MUZZLE UPWARD] TRAIL AND DIGGIN'S PEOPLE OLD ACQUAINTANCES: TERRY RICHARDS Off to the Gold Fields MR. AND MRS. RICHARDS His Parents HARRY REVERE His Partner GEORGE STANTON A Tender-foot VIRGIE STANTON Also a Tender-foot MR. AND MRS. STANTON Their Parents SOL JUDY A "Forty-niner" PINE KNOT IKE Not so Tough After All THUNDER HORSE Bad Medicine SHEP Ready for Anything DUKE THE HALF-BUFFALO} Queer Wagon Mates JENNY THE YELLOW MULE} NEW ACQUAINTANCES: THE SICK BOY Who Shows His Gratitude PAT CASEY With a Taste for Pie LITTLE RAVEN White Man's Friend LEFT HAND Official Interpreter HORACE GREELEY New York Tribune Editor JOURNALIST RICHARDSON Boston Journal Reporter JOURNALIST VILLARD The Cincinnati Reporter GREEN RUSSELL} The Original "Boomers" JOHN GREGORY } MCGREW THE WHEEL-BARROW MAN Who "Pushed" Across And Certain Others of the Busy Folk That Thronged the Gulches and the Young Denver City. PLACE AND TIME: The Pike's Peak Country of the Rocky Mountains, 1859. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. To the Mountains of Gold 1 II. The "Pike's Peak Limited" 15 III. Duke on a Rampage 29 IV. The Trail Grows Lonesome 39 V. Tough Luck for the Limited 53 VI. Just in Time 65 VII. Shep Does His Duty 75 VIII. The Trail Grows Lively 91 IX. Now Where Is the "Elephant"? 103 X. "Forward March" to Gregory Gulch 116 XI. "Rich at Last!" 126 XII. Panning the "Golden Prize" 138 XIII. Ready for Big Business, But * * * 147