The gold rush of 1891 turned the citizens of Cripple Creek, Colorado, into overnight millionaires and set off a mining bonanza that is still producing gold today."Crazy" Bob Womack discovered the first "float" and then sold for $300 his half of a claim that would eventually produce $3 million in gold. This vivid chronicle recounts the impact wealth had on the town and its people in one of history's most fascinating and colorful eras.
- ISBN10 1556223994
- ISBN13 9781556223990
- Publish Date 6 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English