-causes Cherokee to be pushed off their land in wake

-in the end they flee to Spanish Texas (with concessions)

-people are tapping for minerals there, but largely excluded from settlement

-later than OTL due to northward transcontinental railroad

-following the US's Wars > American Civil War (1869-76), big push to tap for gold discovers a lot there

-large-scale settlement proceeds there pushed by govt, sees rise of Cherisia [Denver]

-in wake of Pikes Peak tapping of nearby rivers, discovered all across Washingtonia [western Montana, Wyoming]and populates it

-last, great gold rush

-discovery sees war with Sioux that pushes them from Black Hills reservation into North-West Indian Territory