Seeing Cripple Creek
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Cripple Creek (Colo.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Cripple Creek (Colo.)
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Author : Mabel Barbee Lee
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803279124
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 : Troy Howell
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1613121318
When Kat and her father and brother visit the Mollie Kathleen, an old gold mine now open for tours by the busload, Kat gets lost from the group and falls down a shaft, where she discovers an awe-inspiring world of fantasy come to life. She meets an ancient dragon—the last of his kind—and discovers a secret about the gold that litters the creature's den and why dragons throughout time have hoarded the sparkling treasure. The dragon helps Kat escape the endless caverns, but not before Kat greedily takes a piece of gold for herself. Feeling guilty, Kat decides to return it, but before she can do this she drops it in front of a group of visitors, and a media frenzy ensues. Soon the mining town is filled with gold seekers. In order to save the dragon and his gold, Kat and her brother must venture back into the mine to warn him. But will they get there in time? This fast-paced, beautifully told modern fantasy tale by children's book illustrator Troy Howell will keep readers spellbound. Praise for The Dragon of Cripple Creek “Writing in Kat’s first-person narrative, which is wry and funny, clipped and eloquent, Howell, best known as an illustrator, mixes fantasy adventure with a moving conservation story in a debut that blends sadness, secrecy, and pure fun.” –Booklist
Author : Waldemar Lindgren
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Geology
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Author : Brian Levine
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2018-05-26
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ISBN : 9781719553469
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 : Dean Kramer
Publisher : Demos Medical Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1888799684
In her first collection of essays, author Dean Kramer shares the victories and failures of day-to-day life with multiple sclerosis. At her home in rural Pennsylvania Kramer faces unexpected dilemmas, including choosing which shoes to wear when the choice can no longer be based on looks — yet you are not ready to dress like the elderly neighbor, and what to do when your scooter disrupts a hornets nest and running away isn’t an option. With beauty and joy, laughter and tears, Kramer lets readers experience life through her eyes.. Many books convey the struggles of living with a life-changing disability. ButLife on Cripple Creekgoes further to show that with inner strength and a sense of humor the intrinsic land mines one encounters with this disease need not be devastating.
Author : Mona Hodgson
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307730336
Love lost doesn’t mean love lost forever. Can unexpected romance deliver a second chance for two deserving widows? Full of resolve, young widow Willow Peterson decides to pursue her dreams to be an artist as she settles into a new life in the growing mountain town of Cripple Creek. When she lands a job working as a portrait painter with handsome entrepreneur and photographer Trenton Van Der Veer, the road before Willow seems to be taking a better-than-anticipated turn. With questions tugging at several hearts in town, including the Sinclair Sisters’ beloved Miss Hattie, change is traveling down the tracks as several unexpected visitors make their way out West. Will the new arrivals threaten the deep family bonds of the Sinclair sisters and the roots of love that are just taking hold for Willow? Filled with the resonating questions that all women face, this romance awakens hope against grief, love against loss, and dreams against life’s unexpected turns.
Author : Emma Florence Langdon
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904
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Author : Sherri Shackelford
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373282753
GALAHAD IN A STETSON Cowboy John Elder needs a replacement crew of cattle hands to drive his longhorns to Kansas--he just never figured they'd be wearing petticoats. Traveling with Moira O'Mara and the orphan girls in her care is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Yet despite Moira's declaration of independence, the feisty beauty evokes John's every masculine instinct to protect, defend...marry? Moira is grateful for John's help when he rescues her--and she can't deny that his calm, in-control manner proves comforting. But she is determined not to let anything get in the way of her plans to search for her long-lost brother at journey's end. However, can John show her a new future--one perfect for them to share?