Click on the gold to get started! Lets travel back in time to the Colorado Gold Rush and learn all about the miners!

Hurry…hop into the time machine! We will arrive in 1890!

Hello time travelers! My name is Gold Miner Joe! Welcome to 1890 and to the great gold mining town of Cripple Creek! I will be taking you on a tour where we will explore the town and learn all about the life of a Colorado Miner! Click on me to navigate to the next page.

Lets go meet some of Cripple Creeks finest miners! Hop into the covered wagon! Click on the covered wagon once you are ready!

Colorado Miners came from the east in hopes to strike gold! They traveled across the plains in covered wagons longing for the view of Pikes Peak. Single men outnumbered Cripple Creek in the early days. Howdy Time Travelers! My name is Tom, and I traveled to Colorado all the way from Missouri!

Colorado miners lived in tents next to the rivers for the first few months. Later they built log cabins close to the gold or silver mines.

There appears to be a storm rolling into town. Hurry up and get in the covered wagon! Click on the covered wagon when you are ready.

Do you hear that bone chilling wind? Colorado mining towns are located in the Rocky Mountains, which have very cold winters. Canned Vegetables & Fruit Fresh Vegetables & Fruit What do miners eat during the long winter months? Click on the picture to find out!

The first gold discoveries came from gold panning in the rivers and streams. Do you see any gold in my pan?

Later, miners used sluices. A sluice is a wooden trough that water flowed through. Miners shoveled gravel into the sluice. The water carried away the gravel, and the gold settled at the bottom of the sluice. The miners panned the gold out. How did miners find gold in the sluice? Click on the picture to find out the answer!

Jump into the covered wagon! We are going to visit a gold mine! Click on the covered wagon when you are ready to go.

Gold miners dug tunnels into the mountains, where they then blasted away the gravel to find gold! Click on the picture to look inside the tunnel.

Mining towns needed food and equipment delivered to them year round. ________ carried supplies to mining towns from the towns on the eastern plains. Trains Click on the picture to find out the answer

Women and children moved to the mining camps as they became prosperous. Good afternoon time travelers! My name is Eli and I moved to Cripple Creek with my mom and siblings to join my father.

When mining camps became prosperous, buildings, schools, and houses were built. Soon the camps became booming towns.

Howdy, time travelers! My name is Robert Womack, but you can call me Ole’ Bob. I discovered gold in the creek bed outside my family ranch in The Last Gold Rush in Colorado!! Ole’ Bob discovered a vein of gold in Cripple Creek. What did he start in 1891? Click on Ole’ Bob to find the answer!

The Colorado Gold Rush came one decade after the California Gold Rush. Click on the picture to find the answer! TrueFalse

Thank you for visiting the great Colorado mining town, Cripple Creek! All of our miners and towns people enjoyed having you here today. Enjoy the pot of gold we panned out of the river. Now it is time for you to get back in the time machine! Good bye!

Time to return back to 2009! Everyone is waiting for your safe return. Click on the time machine when you are ready to go!

Welcome back to 2009 time travelers! I hope you had fun and learned a lot on your adventure into the past. You can continue your journey back into the past by clicking on the pictures! Have fun and be safe! Learn more about Cripple Creek’s past and present! View a live photo from the top of Pikes Peak! Travel back to many different Colorado mining towns!