Crazy Bob Womack and the Cripple Creek Gold Fever
Special Denver report chronicles Crazy Bob Womack and other fortune seekers in Cripple Creek. From poverty gulch to riches and back, tales show how rapid wealth, clever risk, and luck shape mining fortunes, with mines yielding fortunes while owners tumble back into poverty after losses and misjudgments.
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Denver
Col
New “Gold Belt
Monte ‘Cristo
Cripple Creek
Volcaano
Rob
Crazy Bob
Bob
Golden VPleece and mining boom era viewed through profits and perils
The piece reflects on profits from a Colorado mine and a tailor’s $5,000 gain from a $20 suit, while noting a street scraper now building a fine Colorado Springs home. It sketches the Pike’s Peak rush, early prospectors, and legendary figures like Keche and Comstock, highlighting wealth’s fickle nature and the lasting myth of fortunes.
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William Shemell
Kentucky
Colorado Springs
Cripple Creek
Darky
John Homan
Pike's Peak
Great Peak
Zebulon Pike
Leadville
Adam Heche
Keche
Tabor
Nevada
Virginia
Virginia City
Bob” Comstock
Bob" Womack
J. M. Scaytaxn
The Tooth of Time and the Rise of Washington
A reflective travelogue traces how Hamburg and Analostan Castle gave way to Washington's capital. It recalls Braddock's march, Fleet's diary, and the Potomac flats transformation into a landscaped park while Hamburgiv its hamlet faded into city streets.
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Washington
New World
Naval Observatory
Observatory -Hill
Analostan Castle
George Washington
Hamburg
Powtowmack
Braddock
Fort DuQuesne
Pittsburgh
War Department
National Capital
Fleet
Goose Creek
Caital
Tiber
Rome
Thomas Moore
Gottlieb Grammer
Cipal
Sycateacnael
Potomac Flats
Maj. 1 Enfant
20Th Street
London
Paris
Pocahontas
John Smith
Potomac
Norfolk
Analosian Castle
Observatory Hill
Georgetown
Dumbarton
Ninian | Beall
Dumbarton Castle
Jane Porter
Aes
A Roland for an Oliver and a Will Talked
In Bay City Chat a humorous exchange unfolds over a Sunday reader. A husband teases about a home made desolate column while the wife dismisses it, and a witty pair of remarks about a will and a writing set reveal family banter and social sniping. The scene features Mary James Oldbatch and his nephew in a light domestic vignette with gentle irony.
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Roland
Oliver
Mary
James
Parody Lines From Old Papers In A Humorous Montage
A collage of quips from Washington Star Fliegende Blaetter Puck and Judge features a stranger view of daily life with a dog and whisky amid domestic foibles. It includes a cartoonish exchange about a dog and whisky and a child’s pretend game of family roles.
Trade talk and quips from a bustling doorstep
A collage of humorous snippets from newspapers humor pages. A china merchant is refused a sale with a trade quip about a family, while other gags involve a furniture ad, parlor kisses, voting folly, toy woes, and a watch with a sweetheart's picture. The items showcase playful dialogue and light ironies across urban life.
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Crazy Bob Womack
Womack
Poverty Gulch
Keeley
Colorado
Nust
Country
Ours
Europe
America
Arsenal
Potomac River
Belinda
Chicago Tribune
Bay City
Dallas
Tex
Edgar
California
Fliegende Blaetter
Col. Kyahier
Washington Star
Maud
Marie
Puck
Johnnie
Brown
Detroit Freeress
Mandy Ann
Rastus
de Waydown Furniture
Ebony
Indianapolis Journal
Mashman
Mr. Johnson
Chicago
Toy Sire Window
X. Y. Weekly
Bill
Lnk
Akater
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