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Dreams of Gold on the Starvation Trail

by | Jun 26, 2010 | Travel & Preservation

From Kansas City, Missouri, to Denver, Colorado.
Gold seekers intent on finding the quickest ways to the Colorado gold fields forged the Smoky Hill Trail, but many of them paid a terrible price in their quest as tthey failed to recognize the dangers in crossing the Kansas and Colorado Plains. Named for the Smoky Hills (a low clay ridge between the Smoky Hill and Republican Rivers in present-day Kansas), the Smoky Hill Trail


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