ATDTDA (17): Cripple (Creek) (465.35)

[Tim Strzechowski]

"She's been movin around some, but the latest I heard, she's living in Cripple" (p. 465).


The historic City of Cripple Creek is a Statutory City that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. Cripple Creek is a former gold mining camp located 44 miles southwest of Colorado Springs near the base of Pikes Peak. The federally designated Cripple Creek National Historic District is located in the city. 

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During the 1890s, many of the miners in the Cripple Creek area joined a miners' union, the Western Federation of Miners (WFM). A significant strike took place in 1894, marking one of the few times in history that a sitting governor called out the national guard to protect miners from forces under the control of the mine owners. By 1903 the allegiance of the state government had shifted, however, and Governor James Peabody sent the Colorado National Guard into Cripple Creek with the goal of destroying union power in the gold camps. The WFM strike of 1903 and the governor's response precipitated the Colorado Labor Wars, a struggle that took many lives. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek,_Colorado

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