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Mount Pisgah Hoax Sparks Miner Folly and Gold Boom
Three men and a burro chase a Mount Pisgah gold myth in the Rockies. Hoaxers salted a claim drawing 2000 hopefuls to Cripple Creek like a warning flare. The tale ends with a Hanging-like death sentence and the rise of a real gold rush town near Cripple Creek and later the old Mine near Ajo, Arizona, itself a vanished beacon of fortune.
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