Rocky Mountain Horses for Sale near Arvada, CO

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Rocky Mountain Mare
This mare has been professionally re - trained for the last 30 days and is ..
Elizabeth, Colorado
Chocolate
Rocky Mountain
Mare
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Elizabeth, CO
CO
$1,200
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About Arvada, CO

The first documented discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountain region occurred on June 22, 1850, when Lewis Ralston, a Georgia prospector headed for the California gold fields, dipped his sluice pan into a small stream near its mouth at Clear Creek. Ralston found about 1/4 ounce (6 g) of gold, then worth about five dollars. Ralston's companions named the stream Ralston's Creek in his honor, but they all left the next morning, drawn by the lure of California gold. During the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858, Ralston brought another group of prospectors back to the site of his first discovery. The placer gold in the area soon played out, but hard rock deposits of gold were found in the mountains to the west.