Nebraska State Historical Society
Title
Gold at Pike’s Peak – Rush For – Stampede
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
January 1885
There is no portion of the history of the past which is not largely
obscured, distorted, or absolutely falsified through the omission of unwritten
portions.
We are prone to forget or fail to realize how intense the interest of
the future may be in the doings of to-day. Or if we feel the importance
of leaving a record we are apt to note only the fading and vanishing
items of the past. To make a record of transactions and happenings
of to-day, of that which everyone knows all about, seems
uncalled for and useless labor.
Through this neglect important springs of action and leading incidents to even revolutionary acts die out of memory, and are thus lost
to the historian, who, for lack of the real causes, founds upon false
ones, if any. That truthful history, especially of partisan transactions,
cannot be written in present time, is most unquestionably true. Partisan
feeling, more or less active, will unconsciously color and distort
the views of the' most impartial. Still a record Of the facts of the
present may save the future historian much labor and from great
error.
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Published in Transactions and Reports of the Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume I (Lincoln, NE 1885).