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Cripple Creek, Colorado

The Cripple Creek, Colorado gold rush began when cowboy and part-time prospector, Bob Womack, found gold on his cattle ranch in 1890. The ranch, bisected by a small stream called Cripple Creek, would be just the first of many locations in the Cripple Creek Mining District to be filled with rich veins of gold ore. When Womack first found the rich vein, there were less than two dozen people living in the four by six mile long area that would be called home to more than 50,000 people in less than a decade.

Cripple Creek, CO - Becker-Nolon Building

Cripple Creek, CO - Becker-Nolon Building

Cripple Creek, CO - Brass Ass Building

Cripple Creek, CO - Brass Ass Building

Cripple Creek, CO - Buildings

Cripple Creek, CO - Buildings

Cripple Creek, CO - Buildings - 2

Cripple Creek, CO - Buildings

Cripple Creek, CO - Church

Cripple Creek, CO - Church

Cripple Creek, CO - Cottage Inn Sign

Cripple Creek, CO - Cottage Inn Sign

Cripple Creek, CO - Cripple Creek & Victor Railroad

Cripple Creek, CO - Cripple Creek & Victor Railroad

Cripple Creek, CO - Cripple Creek & Victor Railroad

Cripple Creek, CO - Cripple Creek & Victor Railroad

Cripple Creek, CO - Cripple Creek & Victor Railroad Depot

Cripple Creek, CO - Cripple Creek & Victor RailroadDepot

Cripple Creek, CO - District Mining Remnants

Cripple Creek, CO - District Mining Remnants

Cripple Creek, CO - Downtown Buildings

Cripple Creek, CO - Downtown Buildings

Cripple Creek, CO - Fire Department

Cripple Creek, CO - Fire Department

Cripple Creek, CO - Grocery Store

Cripple Creek, CO - Grocery Store

Cripple Creek, CO - Headframe

Cripple Creek, CO - Headframe

Cripple Creek, CO - Homestead Museum

Cripple Creek, CO - Homestead Museum

Cripple Creek, CO - House

Cripple Creek, CO - House

Cripple Creek, CO - Imperial Hotel

Cripple Creek, CO - Imperial Hotel

Cripple Creek, CO - Mine

Cripple Creek, CO - Mine

Cripple Creek, CO - Mine

Cripple Creek, CO - Mine

Cripple Creek, CO - Mining Remnants

Cripple Creek, CO - Mining Remnants