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Cripple Creek, Colorado |
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 Coming into Cripple Creek from the south (Victor) |
In its' beginning, this town was known as "Poverty Gulch." But then in 1890, Bob Womack discovered gold and Cripple Creek boomed overnight. With up to 500 operating mines in the area, this was one of the wildest and raunchiest gold camps in the West but, as gold camps do, the population here ebbed and flowed with the ebb and flow of gold ore out of the ground. At this point, more than 21 million ounces of gold (more than the California and Alaska Gold Rushes combined) have been removed from this countryside. Today, while there still is a large, active open-pit gold mine up the hill between Cripple Creek and Victor, the majority of gold in Cripple Creek is to be found on the limited stakes gaming tables that fill the buildings lining Main Street. |
 The Cripple Creek Visitor's Center and Museum  The Double Eagle Hotel and Casino  The Cripple Creek American Legion Hall  St. Andrews Church  Carr Manor, a block up the hill from Main Street  A look at one end of Main Street  A look at the back side of some of the buildings on Main Street  Looking in the other direction on Main Street  These buildings re all connected together as part of Womack's Casino  Teller County Courthouse  The old Teller County Sheriff's office |
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