(WEST COLORADO) The Cripple Creek Gold Fields Placers Lodes

Sale 2600 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 812

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(WEST--COLORADO.) The Cripple Creek Gold Fields, Placers, Lodes Illustrated (wrapper title), with alternate caption title "Cripple Creek at the Foot of Pike's Peak." Map on rear wrapper, numerous text illustrations. 31, [1] pages including wrappers. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, minor wear, 1/2-inch hole to title, tape repair to head of fold; light vertical wrinkle to inner margin. [Denver: Colorado Midland Railway], 1892

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This railroad promotional tract was issued just two years after a major gold strike at Cripple Creek. The town's mines and stage lines are discussed, as well as nearby Colorado Springs. None traced at auction, although Eberstadt offered one at retail in 1938.