Cripple Creek’s annual summer festival celebrating its wild donkeys and mining history returns for its 95th year this weekend. Donkey Derby Days started in the 1930s after modern mining equipment and a decline in gold made supply-carrying-donkeys obsolete. The donkeys in Cripple…
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