Up on Cripple Creek The Cripple Creek District Museum in Colorado is working hard at needed repairs and improvements. Among the projects being undertaken in 2009: new electric wiring in the 1895 Midland Terminal Depot, along with fixing plaster ceilings and refinishing floors. Total cost: about $20,500, all of it coming from donations and memberships. Other recent improvements have included painting the 1894 Trading and Transfer Co. building and restoring 65 windows and three chimneys at the
July 2009
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- How I Ruined My Kids for History
- American West: Then & Now
- What do they use in guns to make them smoke after they’re fired?
- How can I tell original brothel tokens from replicas?
- What is the title of the song sung by the villagers in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch?
- Who was Will McLaury, who was gunned down in Tombstone?
- What Western features an outlaw gang in Seymour, Indiana.
- 10 Ways to Get Your Kids Hooked on History
- Wichita, Kansas
- Vince Murray
- Navajo Country on Horseback
- The Texas Camel Corps Camel Treks
- Living in a 100-Year-Old Mercantile
- Filming the Oregon Trail
- Movie Magic Muzzleloaders
- Keep Up the Fight
- Celebrating July Fourth
- Watch Those Splinters!
- Preservation: Where the Bodies are Buried
- Popular Poppies
- Irate Ira Nails the McClellands!
- Where’s the Beef?