The Travels and Adventures of Henry Kingman in Search of Colorado and California Gold, 1859-1865: With a Few Later Incidents.Kingman and "Gold had been discovered in Pikes Peak the year before and by this time excitement was at a high pitch. About the middle of the term the boys began talking about going to Pikes Peak at the close of school. Soon several of them began forming plans to and "hit the trail. and " Naturally this interested and excited me and I wented to become one of the party, but they all declared I was too young, not yet seventeen. and "Finally, just the week before they were ready to start, they agreed to take me. My joy at this knew no bounds. I had always felt strongly the and "call of the wild; and " now I was to really know something of what it meant. and "Our traveling outfit consisted of, three yoke of steers, one yoke of cows, one span of mules, one riding pony, one camp wagon, one grub wagon. One of the cows was giving milk when we started and we milked her every day on the journey. and "We traveled all this time on the south side of the Platte river. Arriving at a place called Cottonwood Creek we found encamped fully one thousand wagons, extending for three miles up and down the creek. These men gathered round a common camp fire, and some who had been to Pikes Peak said it was all a joke, a humbug. These speeches influenced many to change their plans about going on, and we were among the number. Many decided to go to California. We remained at this camp two days then taking up the same trail, which by this time was a well defined roadway, sixty feet in width, the grass all trampled out. and "Originally published in 1917; reformatted for the Kindle; may contain occasional defect; original spellings kept in place.This book published in 1917 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.