Author Description

There's a Cripple Creek few but enthusiasts see. It's an extraordinary and illusive place. America's most illustrious gold mining camp with a history both public and personal, colorful and dramatic. Cripple Creek's story has been told countless times, and in various forms, but this history is different because it is "tangible." It's a story told from what still remains of the gold camp's raucous past, can be seen and handled, collected and researched--a composite of things: letters and postcards, newspapers and maps, stock certificates and mining deeds, bank checks and photographs, books, pamphlets and other paper memorabilia....