Cripple Creek Gold

Author : Marshall Sprague
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537558394
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money Mountain written by Marshall Sprague and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money Mountain, first published in 1953, is the story of the fantastically rich Cripple Creek gold mines of Colorado. Detailed are the discovery of the lode and the first mining claims, the development of the town, the incredible wealth generated by the gold, the inevitable labor strife, disasters such as fires and floods; all well-researched and presented in an entertaining style. Included are 13 pages of maps and photographs. Marshall Sprague (1909-1994) authored a number of books and articles on the American West.

Author : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781719553469
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition written by Kevin Singel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.

Author : Linda Wommack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943829200
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth written by Linda Wommack and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 20, 1890, Bob Womack struck gold and staked his El Paso mining claim at Poverty Gulch, which eventually ignited the greatest gold rush in Colorado's history. During Bob's lifetime, over two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of gold was mined from the Cripple Creek Mining District, which Womack was instrumental in establishing. The story of the man and the gold discovery are told through first-hand accounts from not only Womack's quotes but other legendary figures such as Irving Howbert, Horace Bennett, Leslie Doyle Spell and William, and Ida Womack. Today, over one hundred and twenty-five years after that historic gold discovery, gold is still mined in the mining district of Cripple Creek. The legacy of Robert "Bob' Miller Womack will forever remain as the discoverer of "The Greatest Gold Camp On Earth."

Author : Leni Donlan
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781410924193
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strike it Rich in Cripple Creek written by Leni Donlan and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this book to find out why people rushed to the West during the mid-1800s. Learn about the gold rush city of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and how gold fever caused people to behave in ways that are hard to understand.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cripple Creek written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cripple Creek Times
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the World's Greatest Gold Camp Told by the Cripple Creek Times written by Cripple Creek Times and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cripple Creek Mining District Situate in El Paso, Park, and Fremont Counties, Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mabel Barbee Lee
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279124
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cripple Creek Days written by Mabel Barbee Lee and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mabel 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 : Marshall Sprague
Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money Mountain written by Marshall Sprague and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1953 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No novel could contain more dramatic events than the history of Cripple Creek."--Wyoming Library Roundup "This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fantasy: here are the plain facts of one of the most unbelievable incidents of our history, of a place in the Colorado mountains where a man threw his hat into the air, dug where it fell, and struck a rich vein of ore. . . . It is a fascinating story and the author has told it well."--Paul Engle, Chicago Tribune "Money Mountain mines as rich a vein of human interest, of solid accomplishment combined with picturesque skullduggery, as one is likely to find in all the annals of the western frontier. . . . Virtually every page bears evidence of patient researching through old newspaper files, court records, pioneer reminiscences and other obscure sources likely to throw light on events in and about the town during the fifteen years [1892-1907] when it was riding high. . . . Highly rewarding reading to anyone curious to know what manner of life was lived in the wide-open mining towns of the West."--Oscar Lewis, New York Herald Tribune Books "A roaring story of a roaring town. . . . It's an authentic contribution to the matter of the American West and dandy reading."--Saturday Review "Cripple Creek has found its historian. Money Mountain is sure to stand for years as a valid picture of that bizarre camp."--New York Times Book Review

Author : Henry Lee Jacques Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs written by Henry Lee Jacques Warren and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: