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Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI own two dozen books on Colorado ghost towns and thought I knew a thing or two that is until I read Lost Ghost Towns of Teller County. It provides a complete look at many of this towns from its founding, growth, life in the town and its decline. Some of these towns had populations in excess of two thousand, and Collins provides insight into how they vanished. She backs up her history with nearly twenty pages of notes and references plus her own observations as past director of the Cripple Creek District Museum. There are also images that have not been seen in other ghost town books. Under her section on ranching and resort towns, she has covered many ghost towns not mentioned in any other work of this type. For those that love Colorado history, including the development of its mines, this is a must own book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.

 

I own two dozen books on Colorado ghost towns and thought I knew a thing or two that is until I read Lost Ghost Towns of Teller County. It provides a complete look at many of this towns from its founding, growth, life in the town and its decline. Some of these towns had populations in excess of two thousand, and Collins provides insight into how they vanished. She backs up her history with nearly twenty pages of notes and references plus her own observations as past director of the Cripple Creek District Museum. There are also images that have not been seen in other ghost town books. Under her section on ranching and resort towns, she has covered many ghost towns not mentioned in any other work of this type. For those that love Colorado history, including the development of its mines, this is a must own book.

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