Bouder's Beginnings 1858

Boulder, Evolution of a city. (Revised Ed.) Silvia Pettem. 2006
From the forward by Liston E. Leyendecker, 1994.

Boulder received it's start in the late fall of 1858 when gold rush participants erected log cabins for shelter just below the mouth of Boulder Canyon. In January of 1859, these newcomers ventured 12 miles further west and 3,000 miles higher up to locate the mining camp of Gold Hill. Their tiny settlement at the canyon's entrance served as a supply point for people entering or leaving the newly found gold region.

Posted by Donlyn A. Arbuthnot, descendant of Carson Arbuthnot, 1859 Gold Hill Miner