CRIPPLE CREEK, BOB WOMACK, AND THE GREATEST GOLD CAMP ON EARTH
On October 20, 1890, Bob Womack struck gold and staked his El Paso mining claim at Poverty Gulch, which eventually ignited the greatest gold rush in Colorado’s history. During Bob’s lifetime, over two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of gold was mined from the Cripple Creek Mining District, which Womack was instrumental in establishing. The story of the man and the gold discovery are told through first-hand accounts from not only Womack’s quotes, but other legendary figures such as Irving Howbert, Horace Bennett, Leslie Doyle Spell and William and Ida Womack. Today, over one hundred and twenty-five years after that historic gold discovery, gold is still mined in the mining district of Cripple Creek. The legacy of Robert “Bob’ Miller Womack will forever remain as the discoverer of “The Greatest Gold Camp On Earth.”
ISBN# 9781943829200
192 pages, softcover, 40 B&W photos
$19.95
This book has a foreword written by Dr. Thomas J. Noel, Colorado State Historian
A Colorado native, Linda Wommack, is a Colorado historian and historical consultant. An award-winning writer, she has written eleven books on Colorado history.
Linda’s research has been used in several documentary accounts for the national Wild West History Association, historical treatises of the Sand Creek Massacre, as well as critical historic aspects for the new Lawman & Outlaw Museum in Cripple Creek, Colorado, which opened in 2007. Linda has been a contributing editor for True West Magazine since 1995. She has also been a staff writer, contributing a monthly article for Wild West Magazine, since 2004. She has also written for The Tombstone Epitaph, the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper, since 1993. Linda also writes for several publications throughout her state. A longtime member of the national Western Writers of America, and Women Writing the West. She is currently serving her fourth term as a board member and is the Chair for the DOWNING Journalism Award.
Finally! Linda Wommack’s latest book, “Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth” traces the Womack family’s Colorado adventures that lead up to Robert “Bob” Womack’s discovery of Cripple Creek gold and the last great American gold rush. More importantly, Linda brings to light the significant role that Bob played in bringing all the right people to the gold camp, which in turn created the sensational successes of many men and women who made their fortunes from the “bowl of gold.” It has been a long time since a new story has been added to the Cripple Creek legend, and what better way to bring than that of Robert “Bob” Womack, the discoverer of Cripple Creek!
— Michelle Rozell, Director, Cripple Creek Heritage Center
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