Money Mountain

The Story of Cripple Creek Gold

Ranked #92 in Mining

“No novel could contain more dramatic events than the history of Cripple Creek.”—Wyoming Library Roundup

“This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fantasy: here are the plain facts of one of the most unbelievable incidents of our history, of a place in the Colorado mountains where a man threw his hat into the air, dug where it fell, and struck a rich vein of ore. . . . It is a fascinating story and the author has told it well.”—Paul Engle, Chicago Tribune

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