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2 unusual facts about Cripple Creek-Victor High School


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.


Cripple Creek

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

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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