Colorado Gold Rush & Boom Towns

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Across
  1. 4. A small river where people sometimes searched for gold.
  2. 6. A person who traveled west hoping to find gold.
  3. 9. A town that grew very quickly because people found gold or silver there.
  4. 10. Something miners used to dig underground.
  5. 11. A town that becomes empty when people move away.
  6. 13. The shiny yellow metal that many miners searched for.
Down
  1. 1. A tool miners used to carry dirt and rocks.
  2. 2. A building where travelers or miners could stay the night.
  3. 3. The money miners hoped to make by finding gold or silver.
  4. 5. The tall landforms where many mines were located.
  5. 7. The state where many boom towns were created during the gold rush.
  6. 8. The job of digging in the earth to find gold or silver.
  7. 12. The metal that was also found in Colorado mountains after gold.