Colorado Experience: Creede – The Last Boom Town
Colorado Experience: Creede – The Last Boom Town
In so many ways, the story of Colorado is the story of mining. And Creede stands as one of the last mining towns of its kind. So many mines and their legacies were abandoned over the years โ and nearly lost forever. But a handful of heroes have staked a claim on history by preserving these sites. From mining boom towns to ghost towns โ itโs all here.
PBS is a courroupt terrorist pos
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I really love the PBS system in the United States, the history of a state in one place from the Declaration of Independence to recent events, extremely well made documentaries and topics that to most viewers would be dry and uninteresting but hearing that history from the descendants of the original story and the local experts make it fresh, interesting and informative, however, one thing that I have noticed in all the documentaries that involve the indigenous peoples is that the acquisition of their lands, when and why, are well documented, but how those lands were obtained is very very rarely mentioned, and I wonder why that is???, obviously that subject can be a sticky issue to address given that most historians say that sometimes the land was purchased for a pittance or they were just taken, hence the Indian wars, I appreciate that some donโt want to address that issue, but history is not just about the good events but the bad as well, and by ignoring that history it distorts that history until it isnโt truly accurate.
If my opinion has offended anyone all I can say is that it wasnโt my intention to offend, but to express my personal opinion.
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What the hell, just leave…It’s time.
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Creede is a beautiful place. It has become a true tourist area now with so much development. I lived and worked there from 1972 thru 1980. I loved it and missed it for many years. So many memories there!
Very interesting!
With all the transplants they will ruin it like all other mining towns here. They will bulldoze everything, make some damn east coast bistros and typical gift shopsthats sell the same crap all over the country, and they will use the wood from the mines to make "art" while the roads jam up with traffic and bicyclist. So sad
foota a real youth ppl a yard too licky licky foriegn mind
Howard ford the man who killed outlaw jesse james was also killed in creede colorado
So glad I found this series. thank you.
nice
to the mine
I agree the channel is
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I DJ’d a prom in Creede a few decades back, the gym was one of the best decorated that I saw in a 5 state tour. Everybody had a blast, Thanx Creede!
Where were the houses of ill repute ? lol
Really enjoyed it! Thank you!!
Edward Oโ Kelly, anyone?
Colorado today is full of Californians and itโs a shithole state now.
Fantastic little town with great mining history….the Bachelor loop is a revelation and offers great views of town towards the end at the Bulldog mine….trying to match up the town of Bachelor from a photo of what it used to look like with the field that is there now is really interesting!
mining not done there yet. Silver will go back up someday………. and the silver is still in the ground. 10,100,200 years from now….. the silver is still there and its fact, at some point somebody is going to go after it when the price is right.
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If I had a nickle for every bonanza discovery story that included hunting down a lost donkey, I’d be rich.
I wish my local PBS would post history docs online like Rocky Mountain PBS does. You guys rock.
Camped North of Creede near old Bachelor town site. Was amazing place!!! So pretty and natural. All the old preserved mine sites and the environmental work done is in amazing harmony!
Jack rocks! (no pun intended). I really hope to meet him and tour his mine someday. From Aurora with love, Creede is gorgeous with an amazing history.
Bravo Jack
She states "Bob Ford was a gentleman, who killed Jesse James"….really? Bob Ford was a coward POS. Only a coward would purposely shoot someone, anyone, in the back. That is no gentleman. Glad he was killed.
That guy Jack from last chance mine is always rude to restaurant workers js
12:52 Were whiskey shots $1.00 back then? That seems very expensive as I can get one now for $3.00
They went to the Yukon
I have the 1988 โTrails Among the Columbineโ ,which includes a section on the Denver and Rio Grande Creede Branch. This video filled in some gaps in my knowledge of Creeed. I am so grateful that you did this segment.
Fantastic video. Thank you so much.
I never been there though I was an underground gold miner for 43 years in Timmins, Canada, I miss it except for the company politics, lol
Awesome!! Too bad the BLM and Forest Service are closing mines and bulldozin cabins and history. Hopefully we’ll be goin to creede this comin up summer.
I am speaking from North Wales UK. Every time I watch these history channels in whatever State it is, there are always surnames I can find in any phone directory in the UK,including some which are very old in the UK, and that is before they emigrated to the States.
I wish Creede all the best.
Great production… Just very difficult to watch with subtitles
Those people are deceiving everybody in their tribute festivals. They did not have pneumatic drills nor motorized mining cars in the 19th century.
that coward , who shot mr howard
Great segment. Thank you!
I WOULD HAVE LOVED LIVING IN THIS
TOWN OF CREEDE, COLORADO IN THE1800’S !!!!
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Some of the best mine tours are in Colorado because they never closed them kept the 19th century equipment going preserved it so well.
I wish we had done this in southwestern PA where my grandfathers worked in the coal mines for 50 cents a ton. Not a single mine was preserved to honor the history of those miners.
old powder goes up a 6oz. leave it alone in the old mines
Jack is a good man.
Back in the early eighties a friend and I were looking to find some real good snow and back in the four corners region there was a ton of snow falling at Wolf Creek pass and all the other areas so we decided we would check out Wolf Creek which ended up being tons of snow but nothing of a mountain but after we found out our skiing experience was to be minimal we decided to do a tour again being middle of winter we stumble into a town called Creed and wow talk about a ghost town that really was a ghost town there was probably four people in the whole town at that time from what I could see the only thing that we were able to do I think was take a tour of the fire department which had not only a fire department in there but the darkest place one could find anywhere I don’t know there was something about how dark it was I’m not sure anyway after a big blizzard blew through and we were camping in my van we woke up pretty Frozen and proceeded to drive to del Norte and we had two little holes scraped in the windshield through the ice and our guns on the dashboard cuz we were trying to practice shoot and we get pulled over by a cop who just looked at us and said you got to be kidding me and let us go I thought that was the coolest thing
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Soapy Smith. What a prolific dick.
Cool …but…
The roles of women are sadly ignored here. As men ripped out Earth’s innards, their purportedly Christian women were subjected to prostitution, for example. Those women were worse off than Miners. Hollywood says they got rich, went straight and opened a motel. A more likely outcome might be poverty, disease, ineligibility for marriage and early death in some scrap-built hovel. The elimination of women’s History and women’s WORK from this is a sad omission. Mining today is the SINGLE industry with the lowest women, and they are having to blaze trails now that should long ago have been paved.
How many times are MEN mentioned?
How many times Women?
If we could STOP writing half the population out of HIS-tory….. that’d be GREAT.
-Some old white guy
in other words, the Indians were doing fine until the white man came along..got it