Strike It Rich In Cripple Creek
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Strike It Rich In Cripple Creek
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Author : Leni Donlan
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Release Date : 2007
Strike It Rich In Cripple Creek written by Leni Donlan and has been published by Heinemann-Raintree Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
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.
The King Of Cripple Creek
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Author : Marshall Sprague
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The King Of Cripple Creek written by Marshall Sprague and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The Cripple Creek Strike Of 1893
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Author : Benjamin McKie Rastall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
The Cripple Creek Strike Of 1893 written by Benjamin McKie Rastall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1893 categories.
Cities Of Gold
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Author : Brian H. Levine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Cities Of Gold written by Brian H. Levine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Cripple Creek Region (Colo.) categories.
The Belle Of Cripple Creek Gold
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Author : David Anton
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2001-12-13
The Belle Of Cripple Creek Gold written by David Anton and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-13 with Fiction categories.
In the fall of 1895, a young Irish girl, Anabelle Brown, unhappy at home, leaves Ireland for the States to join her brother Joe. After arriving in New York, she is left stranded. Frantic, she hesitatingly takes a nanny job with an immigrant Italian family, but after a sexual assault from the husband, she decides to leave for Cripple Creek, where her brother is supposed to be seeking his fortune in the new gold camp. She trains to the Colorado boom gold town, anxious but determined to make her way with or without her brother. She finds Cripple Creek to be a daunting place for a young, eighteen-year-old girl. She has little money and there are several Joe Brownes, none of them her brother. An Irish bartender, Nolan, and his sister, Maggie, take her in hand by giving her a job as a dime dancer in a saloon hall. This grueling and unwholesome job becomes the door for Anabelle to enter into a new life in America. She meets a young Irishman named Jimmie Demaree at the dance hall, allows him to escort her home, a short journey which was to change her life. On the way, they stop off at a famous men ́s club in the town, the Old Homestead, also a high class brothel, where Anabelle meets the most famous Madam in town, Pearl Van del Lear. She likes the young Irish girl and offers her a job as her assistant. Hesitatingly deciding to take the position plunges Anabelle into the very center of life in the exploding gold camp. In the next months, she meets the men who are making big gold strikes and using their wealth to make over Cripple Creek to their advantage. Anabelle sees the lust and lure of a major gold camp. She watches the winners exploit their advantages; she sees first hand the violence that gold fever provokes, and she learns how to survive in a place where women are men ́s chattels. She connects with the upstanding men among the rabble. Besides Jimmie, she comes to know the richest man in the camp, Scott Winfield, who wants to build Cripple Creek into a fine city and make life better for all its inhabitants. He is as cunning in dealing with the avaricious gold seekers and the riffraff that drift into such places as he is in managing his gold claims. Amid the violence, personal tragedies, and luridness of the gold camp culture, she releases her Irish sexual frigidity, falls in love with Jimmie, only to lose him, but thanks to Winfield is rescued. Winfield and her friends, in an effort to bring back her zest for life, make her their city ́s parade queen in the Fourth of July parade, celebrating the rebirth of Cripple Creek after its disastrous city fire. But what really saves her is a secret consolation.
The Colorado Labor Wars Cripple Creek 1903 1904 A Centennial Commemoration
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District
Release Date : 2006
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Cripple Creek District
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Author : Jan MacKell
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Cripple Creek District written by Jan MacKell and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The 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.
Cripple Creek Days
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Author : Mabel Barbee Lee
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1984-01-01
Cripple Creek Days written by Mabel Barbee Lee and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
History Of Cripple Creek
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
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Pinkerton S Great Detective
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Author : Beau Riffenburgh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Pinkerton S Great Detective written by Beau Riffenburgh and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland’s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers along on McParland’s most challenging cases: from young McParland’s infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idaho’s former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.