![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At least until snow and heavy rains washed what was left of her (and her casket) back into town. She was wrong, of course, and in 1891 she died, her dying wish apparently that her body be buried at the top of Red Mountain, a towering peak in the Cascade Range in southwest Colorado.įortunately for Crawford, as the organizers of the Emma Crawford Coffin Races explain it, her lover at the time of her death was a civil engineer named William Hildebrand who, along with 11 helpers, made Crawford’s dying wish come true. History says that Emma Crawford arrived in Manitou Springs in the late 1800s believing the cold-water mineral springs there could cure her tuberculosis. Hell on Wheels sprints down Beloit Avenue at the Forest Park Casket Races | File photo
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