what year did the Gold Rush peak
An estimated 100,000 gold seekers took part in one of the greatest gold rushes in North American history. The participants in the gold rush were known as  Fifty-Niners  after 1859, the peak year of the rush and often used the motto Pike's Peak or Bust!But in fact the location of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush was 85 miles (137 km) north of Pike's Peak.It was only named Pike's Peak Gold Rush because of how well known and important Pike's Peak was.he Pike's Peak Gold Rush, which followed the California Gold Rush by approximately one decade, produced a dramatic but temporary influx of immigrants into the Pike's Peak Country of the Southern Rocky Mountains.