This Colorado Gives Day, a special group of volunteers is working to keep Colorado history alive and well fed with hay. In Cripple Creek, these donkeys run the show.

" Two Mile High Club takes care of the Cripple Creek donkeys. They are the living history here in Cripple Creek. They're considered the ambassadors of the town, and they represent the gold mining industry," said Laura Piccolo.

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Visitors may have had their own moment with the curious, kind and often hungry donkeys who wander the streets of the old mining town.

Dale McKenzie said, "Wherever they want to go, eating people's flower boxes and knocking over trash cans and things like that."

The donkeys have been free range in town for almost a century now.

"In the early 1900s, the donkeys were released from their duties

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