Cripple Creek Days

by Mabel Barbee Lee, Lowell Thomas

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803279124
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	09/01/1984
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	286
Sales rank:	1,118,402
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.64(d)

Editorial Reviews

"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

Saturday Review - W. M. Teller

"One of the most fascinating accounts of a gold rush town."—Chicago Sunday Tribune

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

— W. M. Teller

Saturday Review