The Pikes Peak Gold Rush had this effect on Colorado:
By the end of the Gold Rush, women in Colorado outnumbered men.
O The Gold Rush brought thousands of "diggers" and, therefore, the need for law and order. This resulted in the first local governments
in Colorado.
After an accident with dynamite, Pikes Peak went from being 20,000ft in elevation to it's current height; 14, 115ft.
Colorado became a state in 1859.
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