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Creede, Colorado: 1942


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Creede, Colorado: 1942

December 1942 photograph by Andreas Feininger of the lead mining town that at one time was the haunt of the notorious con man Soapy Smith. I've been there a couple of times and it looks much the same. Great little town, beautiful scenery, now a fly fishing mecca.

 

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