Yesterday's Witness S13 E02 Gold Rush at Cripple Creek

In 1891 a cowboy struck gold high in the Rockies not far from Colorado Springs. It was the start of a gold-mining boom that was to last for an amazing 30 years. The cattle ranch at Cripple Creek became a city of 30,000 people. They called it 'The World's Greatest Gold Camp'. Every day in the summer you can see thousands there again - mainly holiday-makers - all lapping up the tour guides' stories. But search a little further, as this film has done, and meet some of Cripple Creek's old-timers who were there, as children, in the gold rush boom days. They'll tell you what life really was like.