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Inscribed copy!
THE CRIPPLE CREEK STRIKE,
1903 - 1904.
Written by Mrs. Emma F.
Langdon. First edition, published by the Press of the Victor Daily Record,
Victor, Colorado. Typographical Union Victor No. 275. Original brown
cloth with gold print on front cover; 248 pages; complete with all
illustrations.
Inscribed and signed by Langdon on
inner front end-paper.
The first edition of this book is
centered mostly on the Western Federation of Miners' labor strike in Colorado
City and Cripple Creek. The two subsequent editions of this book added
details on the WFM's strike in Telluride and Denver.
Three different cloth bindings have
been noted for the first edition: a) green cloth; b) brown cloth; and, c) blue
cloth. No preferential state has been determined for these various
bindings.
Emma Langdon wrote this book after
her husband, Charles G. Langdon, a linotype operator, was arrested and placed,
along with the rest of the Victor Daily Record staff, in the Goldfield bull
pen. The idea and actuality that the staff of a newspaper could be
arrested for what it printed so enraged Emma Langdon that she became an ardent
spokesperson for the Western Federation of Miners.
Few copies have been noted to be
signed or inscribed by Langdon.
Condition: very good plus; a few
light stain marks on back cover; otherwise, pages are bright and clean.
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE
By Count James Pourtales.
Margaret Woodbridge Jackson, translated from the original
German.
With a Preface by
Myron K. Blackmer.
The
Colorado
College:
Colorado Springs,
Colorado,1955, with dust jacket. Number
393 of 500. Printed by W.H. Kistler
Stationery Co.,
Denver,
Colorado.
Tipped in Isabella
Gold Mining Co. stock certificate, #2500, issued to James Pourtales, July 2,
1895, signed by James Pourtales on back, and signed by Thomas C. Parrish as
president; cancelled, very good condition.
Count James Pourtales was one of those rare entrepeneurs who
had faith in the Womack gold discovery made on the southwestern slope of Pikes
Peak. He demonstrated this faith by investing time and energy into this
new gold district in the early 1890s.
Book in original brown cloth binding with gold printing on
front cover and spine; 249 pages. Book
in near fine condition; dust jacket chipped and stained, good only.
Price: $750.00
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THE CITY OF GOD IN THE CITY OF GOLD
By Omer Vincent Foxhoven.
June
1952; no printer nor publisher.
An Historical Sketch of the Cripple Creek
Gold Mining District; of Victor. “City
of
Mines
,” and of Saint Victor Church, on the occasion of its Golden Jubilee.
With a tribute to Father
Downey
by Lowell Thomas and Dr. Harry Thomas, and Local Color and Historical Anecdotes
by Lillian Titmas. Original
copper-hued wrappers with black print on front cover; unpaginated, with
advertisements.
Very good plus condition; previous owner's
signature on front cover and endpaper.
Price:
$85.00
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FORGOTTEN MEN OF CRIPPLE
CREEK
A Story of the Mount Pisgah Gold Excitement.
by Leslie Doyle Spell and Hazel M. Spell.
Big Mountain Press: Denver, Colorado, 1859,
first edition.
Original yellow cloth with brown print on
front cover and spine; 160 pages; half-tone illustrations.
Condition: near fine (previous owner's note
on title page) in near fine dust jacket (several small chips and two short
repaired tears).
$100.00
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Bunker, Hazel W. HISTORY
OF THE EPISCOPAL PARISH OF SAINT ANDREW AT CRIPPLE CREEK IN THE DIOCESE OF
COLORADO
, 1892 – 1958. Original cloth
binding; 95 pages. Illustrations by
Roy A. Butler. Private Press of
Thelma & John R. Evans, Parker,
Colorado
. Number 7 of 300 copies.
Fine condition. $95.00
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Please view our other Cripple Creek pages:
Cripple
Creek
Cripple
Creek Page 2
Cripple
Creek Page 3
Cripple
Creek Page 4
Cripple
Creek Page 5
Cripple
Creek Page 6
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