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At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and the unquestionable strength of the militant Western Federation of Miners.

Elizabeth Jameson tells the entertaining story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical…

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1 author picked All That Glitters as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Having been raised in a union family, I’ve always been fascinated by labor history.

Since some of the deadliest strikes took place here in Colorado—and some forty minutes from my home—I decided to write about the 1902-04 labor wars. But where to begin? Who mined the gold? What was daily life like for the miners? The mine owners? Were politicians as venal then as they are today? 

All That Glitters is my go-to bible for all things turn-of-the-century Cripple Creek. In novel-like prose, the author vividly captures a time that, while only a century past, is quite different from our…

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