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Cripple Creek was the last of the open gold camps before mining fell to giant corporations. Its life was short and violent, but towns, cities, schools, railroads, institutions and financial dynasties grew upon its yield. Today a million tourists each year pour through the region, enjoying what Teddy Roosevelt called "the ride that bankrupts the English language" through Cripple's upper reaches, and imagining the gaudy, brawling days when the quiet, patched and peeling facades of the town were new.
Those are the days that Marshall Sprague, New York Times correspondent, calls back to life in this fascinating book.
He says of his book: "When I moved to Colorado Springs, and began hearing about Cripple, I wanted some information. None existed in one place, so I dug up the story. I spent a year at it. I combed the libraries, news files, directories, court records and cemeteries. Most important, I interviewed dozens of Cripple Creek pioneers. I hope this adds freshness to a story which should have been written a long time ago."
Those are the days that Marshall Sprague, New York Times correspondent, calls back to life in this fascinating book.
He says of his book: "When I moved to Colorado Springs, and began hearing about Cripple, I wanted some information. None existed in one place, so I dug up the story. I spent a year at it. I combed the libraries, news files, directories, court records and cemeteries. Most important, I interviewed dozens of Cripple Creek pioneers. I hope this adds freshness to a story which should have been written a long time ago."
Cripple Creek was the last of the open gold camps before mining fell to giant corporations. Its life was short and violent, but towns, cities, schools, railroads, institutions and financial dynasties grew upon its yield. Today a million tourists each year pour through the region, enjoying what Te...
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Marshall Sprague was an American Author and historian specializing in western American history, with particular interest in that of Colorado. Born in Newark, he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English, became a newspaperman in China and Paris, and then contributed articles and book reviews to The New York Times. He settled in Colorado Springs in 1941 following a tuberculosis diagnosis, and it was following his second recovery that he set to work on writing his book about the history of Cripple Creek, published in 1953 as Money Mountain: The Story Of Cripple Creek Gold. Sprague continued to live and work in Colorado Springs until his death in September of 1994.
Marshall Sprague was an American Author and historian specializing in western American history, with particular interest in that of Colorado. Born in Newark, he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English, became a newspaperman in China and Paris, and then contributed articles an...
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