Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado Cripple Creek Teller Colorado USA http://sws.geonames.org/7305859/about.rdf Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado 74 Oral History interviewee Grace Wade lived in Cripple Creek as a young girl and recalls a thriving city with many saloons, churches, and people. She remembers her father warning her and her mother to not be on the streets when the train carrying miners came in. Apparently, “the hills would just be alive with miners coming down off the hills onto the main street of the town and into the red-light district, and into the saloons, and it was just a rip-roaring mining town.” Grace Wade also details the history of the town, remarking that when the town first started it was just shacks and tents. In 1896, a fire had burned much of the town down. Supposedly, it was caused by an argument between a miner and his ‘lady friend’. A lamp was kicked over and it set fire to her building where a heavy wind blew it all over town. Buildings were later rebuilt with brick to prevent another fire. yes yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek,_Colorado