lewis ralston was the first person to find gold in colorado.
lewis ralston was the first person to find gold in colorado.
who was the first person to find gold in colorado?
lewis ralston
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henry frencham may not have been the first person to find gold at bendigo but he was the first person to announce to the authorities (28 november 1851) and then the world ("the argus", 13 december 1851) the existence of the bendigo gold-field. he was also the first person to deliver a quantity of payable gold from the bendigo gold-field to the authorities when on 28 december 1851, 3 days after the 603 men, women and children then working the bendigo gold-field had pooled their food resources for a combined christmas dinner, frencham and his partner robert atkinson, with trooper synott as an escort, delivered 30 lbs (13.6 kgs) of gold that they had mined to assistant commissioner charles j.p. lydiard at forest creek (castlemaine), the first gold received from bendigo.
australian gold rushes