ATDTDA (7): 195-196 decoding

[David Casseres]

There are two songs called Cripple Creek.  One is old; I think it's an
Appalachian fiddle tune or play-party song, with inconsequential lyrics.
The other is by Bob Dylan, recorded by The Band, a shameless ripoff of the
name of the older song.  Neither has anything to do with Cripple Creek,
Colorado.

On 4/24/07, Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net> wrote:
>
> Owner's Association - loose association of mine owners formed to look
> after their common interests, primarily to resist labor organization
> beginning in the late 1890s...a more formal Colorado Mining
> Association (same purpose) began in the 1870s, and still exists
>
> Cripple Creek - center of serious labor disputes (the Colorado Labor
> Wars) and subject of popular song by The Band
>
> Geronimo - prominent Apache leader who fought against the United
> States westward expansion into his people's tribal territory
>
> Fort Bliss - in El Paso County, Texas (it is now huge)
>
> Coeur d'Alenes - Idaho mining region (Native American author Sherman
> Alexie, author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, is a
> Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian)
>
>
> --
> ===
>
> Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net>
> Bay Village, OH
>
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