The Fabulous Cripple Creek District
Author: George Bowman
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 39
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Author: George Bowman
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 39
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lincoln H. Hall
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan C. Lewis
Publisher: Sundance Publications, Limited
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780913582725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jan MacKell
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780738524139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cripple Creek District, on the back of Pikes Peak in central Colorado, first found fame through Bob Womack, the cowboy who publicized his knowledge of gold in the high country and drew thousands to the area. Gold fever allowed the region to flourish, while strikes, fires, and economic hardships threatened the district's survival. The dwindling population's fortitude, plus innovative ideas to boost the economy, carried the city from a struggling gold-miners' paradise to a favored tourist spot.
Author: Mabel Barbee Lee
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780803279124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole place turn to gold. With his divining rod, Mabel's father tapped gold ore on Beacon Hill but missed becoming a millionaire by selling his claim short. Nonetheless, life was rich for young Mabel in a booming town with points of interest like Poverty Gulch, the Continental Hotel, and a fantastic house called Finn's Folly; with characters around like the promoter Windy Joe and (seen from a distance) the madam Pearl De Vere; with something always going on, whether a celebration or a disastrous fire or train wreck or a no-nonsense miners' strike. Mabel Lee's book brings back a time and place with affection. The foreword is by Lowell Thomas, who was her pupil when she was a young schoolmarm in Cripple Creek. "One of the most fascinating accounts of a gold rush town."-Chicago Sunday Tribune. "More entertaining by far than the run of fictional westerns, more authentic, of course, and a great deal more moving."-W. M. Teller, Saturday Review
Author: Harry J. Newton
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 144
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 480
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Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin McKie Rastall
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781290467988
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