Jimtown, Colorado - Childhood Home of Jack Dempsey

Creede, Colorado was originally known as "Jimtown."

According to Creede.com:  "Prospectors and families alike abandoned the other camps and moved to the little town at the mouth of Willow Creek Canyon with its brick stores and electric streetlights.

"Following the example of Telluride, which was the first electrified community in the world, the Creede miners installed their own electric system just one week before Cy Warman penned his literary legacy about there being no night in Creede."

The referenced work, about the hard-life town in which the future boxer Jack Dempsey lived as a child, includes this:

Here's a land where all are equal -
     Of high or lowly birth.
A land where men make millions,
     Dug from the dreary earth.
Here the meek and mild-eyed burro
     On mineral mountains feed -
It's day all day, in the day-time,
     And there is no night in Creede.

Creede, by Cy Warman, quoted in Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, by Sandra Dallas.