The Gold Camp Victorian Society will host Mount Pisgah Speaks Sept. 19-20. It’s the 26th anniversary of the annual historic tour of Mt. Pisgah Cemetery and the colorful characters who rest there.

The Gold Camp Victorian Society members will again be portraying personalities of the World’s Greatest Gold Camp of the 1890s. They will entertain all who come to visit with riveting, hilarious and often
heart-rendering stories.

The 2025 cast of characters may include:

• Pearl DeVere, the most beloved Madam of the gold camp and the only Madam to be buried in the cemetery

• The Ghost of the Potter’s Field, and the unknown and unnamed buried there

• Johnnie Nolan, the man who banished temperance crusader, Carrie Nation, from Cripple Creek, forever

• Mabel Barbee Lee, Cripple Creek’s most beloved teacher and author of Cripple Creek Days

• Doc Susie, the famous female doctor of the frontier

• Digger O’Dell, the man who dug the graves of Mt. Pisgah (in a creative way).

These famous ghosts, as well as the common folk who lived and worked in the gold camp, will tell their tales of life in one of the most active mining districts in the world where gold is still mined today. You will see the apparitions come alive as they stand at their own graves to tell their stories. This remarkable historic production portrays some of the gold camp’s most famous, infamous, nefarious and loveable characters in an entertaining and slightly spooky atmosphere.

Tours leave the Cripple Creek District Museum parking lot (510 Bennett Avenue) in
Cripple Creek every 30 minutes beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. on Sunday and
run until 1:30 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets may be purchased at www.goldcampvictoriansociety.org or in person the day of the event (as available) at the GCVS District Museum ticket booth.