1859 St Paul Pioneer MINNESOTA newspaper w Beginning of THE PIKES PEAK GOLD RUSH

Description: 1859 St Paul Pioneer MINNESOTA newspaper w Beginning of THE PIKES PEAK GOLD RUSH 1859 St Paul Pioneer MINNESOTA newspaper with the BEGINNING of THE PIKES PEAK GOLD RUSH - inv # 3M-424 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Daily Pioneer and Democrat (St Paul, MN) dated Nov 8, 1859. This rare original newspaper contains an inside page heading and report of the beginning of the PIKES PEAK GOLD RUSH in Colorado.The Minnesota Pioneer, credited as the first paper printed in the new Minnesota Territory, published its first weekly edition in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on April 28, 1849, under editor and publisher James Madison Goodhue. After Goodhue’s death in August 1852, his brother Isaac Goodhue edited the paper for a brief period. Joseph R. Brown became editor and publisher in February 1853, followed by Earle S. Goodrich in March 1854. On May 1, 1854, Goodrich brought out the first issue of the Daily Minnesota Pioneer. He continued to publish the weekly paper, which became a digest of the news appearing in the daily paper. On November 1, 1855 the papers merged with the rival weekly Minnesota Democrat and St. Paul Daily Democrat to become the Weekly Pioneer and Democrat and the Daily Pioneer and Democrat, with Goodrich remaining as editor of the combined titles.The Minnesota Territory was created on March 3, 1849 and existed until Minnesota became a state on May 11, 1858. In 1850, the population of the Minnesota Territory was approximately 6,000 persons. By 1860, that number had increased to over 120,000. This run of newspapers therefore covers most of the years of the territory’s existence as well as the transition to statehood and the early years of that statehood.As the first newspaper published in the territory, Goodhue’s Minnesota Pioneer initially concentrated on boosting the image of the territory as a place to which to immigrate. Other papers established during this period originally followed suit. As rivalries in the territorial legislature began to heat up, papers started to choose sides. On October 25, 1849, Goodhue declared that henceforth, the Minnesota Pioneer would represent the Democratic Party in Minnesota. The vitriol of Goodhue’s pen was legendary, and in 1851 led to an altercation between himself and the brother of a territorial judge excoriated in that day’s editorial, during which Goodhue was stabbed and the other man was shot. During the Brown editorship the paper was somewhat more subdued, but when Goodrich took over he began writing in the same spirit as Goodhue. Though they declared support for the Democratic Party in general, the attention of the Pioneer titles was primarily concentrated on the political aspirations of a few individuals, namely rival Democrats Henry H. Sibley and Henry M. Rice, both of whom financially supported the papers at various points. The Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861. An estimated 100,000 gold seekers took part in one of the greatest gold rushes in North American history.The participants in the gold rush were known as "Fifty-Niners" after 1859, the peak year of the rush and often used the motto Pike's Peak or Bust! In fact, the location of the Pike's Peak gold rush was centered 85 miles north of Pikes Peak. The name Pike's Peak gold rush was used mainly because of how well known and important Pike's Peak was at the time. The rush created a few towns such as Denver City and Boulder City that would develop into cities.Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. 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