The territory was organized in the wake of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1858–1861, which brought the first large concentration of white settlement to the region.
The city of Denver named for the governor of Kansas territory became the settlement around which the pikes Peak country grouped it self in the winter 1858 1859. Boulder, Golden, Colorado City and Pueblo became secondary centers each situated as Denver, and entering the valleys from which trading travel branched from the great trails and entered the valley leading to the mining camps.
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