| These chronicles became the handbook for future travellers and ironically, for gold prospectors and desperados planning quick gains. |
| In the years after World War II, prospectors went looking for oil across southeastern Utah, hoping for a gusher. |
| Snively was likely one of the many prospectors who became disenchanted with the gold fields of California. |
| Before long, more prospectors arrived and followed the gold trail up the canyons to the west of the river. |
| By 1874 prospectors had explored the beautiful horseshoe-shaped valley that would become the townsite of Ouray. |
| These pioneer prospectors practiced surface mining, obtaining gold from the alluvial deposits called placers. |
