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Denver City was founded in November 1858 as a mining town during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in western Kansas Territory.That summer, a group of gold prospectors from Lawrence, Kansas, arrived and established Montana City on the banks of the South Platte River. This was the first settlement in what was later to become the city of Denver.
On November 22, 1858, General William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas, placed cottonwood logs to stake a claim on the bluff overlooking the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek. Larimer named the townsite Denver City after Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver.

Denver skyline from Civic Center Park.

Estes Park, CO USA

Colorado USA

Pikes Peak, CO , USA
In 1893, at the age of thirty-three, Katharine Lee Bates. an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, CO, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College. Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem. Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, 'Pikes Peak' which later became popular as 'America The Beautiful'.