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5 unusual facts about Cripple Creek


Cripple Creek

"Up on Cripple Creek" by The Band on their self-titled album The Band

Cripple Creek-Victor High School

Cripple Creek-Victor Junior/Senior High School is the high school in Cripple Creek, Colorado, also serving Victor, Colorado.

Ralph Lawrence Carr

Born in Rosita in Custer County, he grew up in Cripple Creek in Teller County and graduated from Cripple Creek High School in 1905.

T. J. Tarsney

During the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894, Governor Waite, a 67-year-old Populist, dispatched 300 troops to the Cripple Creek area on March 18 under the command of Adjutant General Tarsney after the local sheriff had declared that the region was in chaos.

Teller County, Colorado

A few years after gold was discovered in Cripple Creek, political differences between area miners and mine owners, many of whom lived in Colorado Springs, resulted in the division of El Paso County.



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Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894

Calderwood was leaving on a tour of the WFM locals in Colorado to raise funds for the Cripple Creek strike, and so appointed Junius J. Johnson, a former U.S. Army officer, to take over strike operations.

Eric Bransby

Bransby was contracted to restore murals made by Randall Davey that included exploration of the area by Zebulon Pike, Native American scenes, Cripple Creek gold discovery and General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs.

Grancer Harrison

He came to Coffee County, Alabama sometime in the 1830s and established a large plantation near the junction of Cripple Creek and Pea River in an area just out outside of what is now Kinston, Alabama.

John Calderwood

Emma Langdon was the wife of a man who had been a newspaper reporter in Victor, Colorado, during the Cripple Creek miner's strike of 1903-04.