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“Up on Cripple Creek she sends me, if I spring a leak she mends me, I don’t have to speak she defends me, a lover’s dream if I ever did see one!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnlU6rPfwY
This was also a nice trip down memory lane for me. As a youngster, my family used to drive up to the Imperial Hotel to see the melodramas. Those are fond memories for me.
For many years Cripple Creek was just a high valley, perfect for raising cattle. But in October 1890, a ranch hand named Bob Womack discovered gold there, changing Cripple Creek forever. By 1900 more than 50,000 people called the gold camp home.
When the golden era ended in 1918, more than $300 million in gold had been mined in what would be the last great gold rush in North America. By the 1920s, only about 40 mines remained, but two decades later, in the 1940s, the town began to promote itself as a tourist destination, offering visitors a glimpse into the past.
Today Cripple Creek has reinvented itself as a full-service tourist destination, with a number of great museums beautifully showcasing the rich history of the West.
Adventures of the NEW Old Farts 
It is so hard to believe you are deep into fall there. It will be 100 degrees again today. I love that about Colorado. Beautiful, cooling pictures for me! Thanks.
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Yes Meg, the high country is so wonderful this time of year!
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It’s gorgeous and makes me miss those fabulous aspen in Colorado at this time of the year. So thanks for the tour back into the past for me. I loved fall in Boulder. 🙂
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Yes DJan, It always makes me glad I live here!
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My family used to spend lots of time in that part of Colorado when I was little. You certainly did pick a most beautiful time of the year to visit. Brenda
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So beautiful! And what an interesting history. Although I am not sure I could ever visit there – the Band song Cripple Creek is stuck in my head just reading your post!!
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“Up on Cripple Creek she sends me, if I spring a leak she mends me, I don’t have to speak she defends me, a lover’s dream if I ever did see one!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnlU6rPfwY
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OMG already fall there! Lovely photos and I am looking fwd to a taste of fall, myself. We head to Santa Fe tomorrow for one month!
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Have a great time Carol! It’s beautiful here!
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