A Visit to Cripple Creek - Petticoats & Pistols

Way back in the nineteen hundreds, I visited Cripple Creek, CO,  with my family. The town sure has changed in the last thirty years. The place I visited on that long-ago family vacation was a ghost town with only a few hundred people and one or two restaurants catering to the lost traveler. In 1991, gambling was legalized. Read more

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