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- ↑ "Bloodhound Filmed in Cripple Creek". The Cripple Creek Times. 10 April 1904.
- 1 2 No Name Supplied (1905). "Selig Polyscope Company 1905 Catalog: No. 17, Tracked by Bloodhounds". doi:10.7282/T3PR7W9B.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - 1 2 "Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek (1904)". The American Film Institute. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
