{"id":103,"date":"2023-03-11T07:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2024-03-27T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:13:54","slug":"about-cripple-creek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/?page_id=103","title":{"rendered":"About Cripple Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" style=\"\" >\n    \n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-image u-shading u-valign-middle-sm u-section-2\" id=\"sec-9f9a\" data-image-width=\"4456\" data-image-height=\"2501\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(51, 49, 41, 0.3), rgba(51, 49, 41, 0.3)), url(&quot;https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fire2-1.jpg&quot;);\">\n      <div class=\"u-container-style u-group u-group-1\">\n        <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-1\">\n          <h1 class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-palette-3-base u-title u-text-1\">about cripple creek<\/h1>\n          <p class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-custom-color-3 u-text-2\">The World's Greatest Gold Camp!<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <p class=\"u-text u-text-body-alt-color u-text-default-lg u-text-default-xl u-text-3\"> In the late 1800s thousands of fortune-seekers made their way to Cripple Creek. Gold had been discovered in Poverty Gulch, starting a country's last great gold rush.<br>\n        <br>The town of Cripple Creek developed along the small creek winding its way from the mountains where gold was found by ranch hand Bob Womack.&nbsp;<br>\n        <br>&nbsp;By 1894, what had been a quiet, serene cattle ranch was a booming gold camp of about 50,000. The camp was to become the fifth richest gold strike in the world.<br>\n        <br>Several celebrities either grew up here or spent time in the mining district, including: Groucho Marx, Lowell Thomas, Wyatt Earp, and Jack Dempsey.<br>\n        <br>Disaster struck Cripple Creek twice in 1896. In late April of that year, a \u201ctaxi dancer\u201d on Myers Avenue (the Red Light District) got into a fight with her beau and a kerosene heater was overturned starting a fire. Three days later, a cook at one of the hotels overturned a pot of grease on a hot stove, which started another fire.<br>\n        <br>Today the streets of Cripple Creek are lined with brick buildings constructed after the fire and renovated in the 1990s as casinos. \n      <\/p>\n      <div class=\"u-container-style u-expanded-width u-group u-hidden-xs u-image u-image-1\" style=\"background-image: url(&quot;https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/696a3dac6b7418675517c19027d8b3a1-1.png&quot;);\">\n        <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-2\"><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-expanded-width u-layout-wrap u-layout-wrap-1\">\n        <div class=\"u-layout\">\n          <div class=\"u-layout-row\">\n            <div class=\"u-container-style u-image u-layout-cell u-size-30 u-image-2\" data-image-width=\"800\" data-image-height=\"533\" style=\"background-image: url(&quot;https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cripple-creek-colorado-downtown-1.jpg&quot;);\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-3\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"u-container-style u-image u-layout-cell u-size-30 u-image-3\" data-image-width=\"1000\" data-image-height=\"749\" style=\"background-image: url(&quot;https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IceFest-1.jpg&quot;);\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-4\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    \n    \n    \n  \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about cripple creek The World&#8217;s Greatest Gold Camp! In the late 1800s thousands of fortune-seekers made their way to Cripple Creek. Gold had been discovered in Poverty Gulch, starting a country&#8217;s last great gold rush. The town of Cripple Creek developed along the small creek winding its way from the mountains where gold was found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cripplecreekmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}