* Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway

* 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

"), with the duo ( and sometimes a guest star sitting between Buck and Roy ) ' dueling ' by playing guitar and banjo to the tune of " Cripple Creek ", telling jokes and reciting one-liners.

* 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners ' strike.

* November 23 – Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners ' strike.

* 1894: Cripple Creek miners ' strike, a five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.

In January 1894, Cripple Creek mine owners J. J. Hagerman, David Moffat and Eben Smith, who together employed one-third of the area's miners, announced a lengthening of the work-day to ten hours ( from eight ), with no change to the daily wage of $ 3. 00 per day.

Not long before this dispute, miners at Cripple Creek had formed the Free Coinage Union.

The union was based in Altman, and had chapters in Anaconda, Cripple Creek and Victor.

Old mining camps that have lost most of their population at some stage of their history, such as Aspen, Central City, Crested Butt, Cripple Creek, Deadwood, Marysville, Oatman, Park City, St. Elmo, Tombstone, and Virginia City, are sometimes included in the category, although they are active towns and cities today.

Most of the historic metal mining camps of Colorado lie in this area, the most important exception being the Cripple Creek District. Approximate boundaries of the Colorado Mineral Belt, as defined by Tweto and Sims ( 1963 ).

The 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 southwest of Colorado Springs near the base of Pikes Peak.

Sunset in Cripple Creek, ca.

Though $ 500, 000, 000 worth of gold ore was dug from Cripple Creek, Womack himself would die, penniless, on August 10, 1909.

By 1900 Cripple Creek and its sister city, Victor, were substantial mining communities.

During the 1890s, many of the miners in the Cripple Creek area joined a miners ' union, the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ).

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.

* Cripple Creek National Historic District

Cripple Creek is served by the Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE-1.

The Cripple Creek Mine Owners ' Association and an anti-union vigilante organization, the Cripple Creek District Citizens ' Alliance, called a meeting at the Victor Military Club to formulate a response to the violence.

Some of the officials in Teller County, and particularly in the Cripple Creek District, were considered sympathetic to the union.

Victor American Fuel Company mined coal ; Victor, Colorado, is part of the Cripple Creek District, and is known for gold mining.

Calaverite occurrences include Cripple Creek, Colorado, Calaveras County, California, USA ( from where it gets its name ), Nagyag, Romania, Kirkland Lake Gold District, Ontario, Rouyn District, Quebec, and Kalgoorlie, Australia.

The Cripple Creek Mining District was under occupation by the Colorado National Guard, the Citizens ' Alliance was active in the district, and historians continue to debate who was responsible for each incident of violence.

During the Colorado Labor Wars, the Colorado National Guard had been called into the Cripple Creek Mining District to put down a strike.

It was shortly thereafter that the signs of a debilitating disease, probably leprosy, began to show and not long after that Antonio received the name by which he has come down through history, " o Aleijadinho ", " The Little Cripple.

The Band started its concert at around 9: 00 p. m., opening with " Up on Cripple Creek ," during the wind-down of which vocalist / drummer Levon Helm called out a humorous " I sure wish I could yodel!

Hytner's directorial work for theatre includes The Country Wife, Edward II, Don Carlos, Ghetto, Miss Saigon, Orpheus Descending, a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel ( 1992 ), Southwark Fair and The Alchemist, Measure for Measure ( 1987 ), The Tempest ( 1988 ) and King Lear ( 1990 ), The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar ( 1992 ), The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh ( 1997 ), The Winter's Tale ( 2001 ), Mother Clap's Molly House by Mark Ravenhill ( 2001 ), Henry V ( play ) ( 2003 ) and England People Very Nice ( 2009 ).

Although the courts eventually acquitted all union members charged with the bombing of the railroad station during the 1903-04 strike and awarded damages to those who had been deported, the strike and the union were broken in Cripple Creek ; similar measures were resorted to in Telluride, Colorado.

Over time, they all eventually died off, but a crippled female and a retarded male (" The Cripple and the Idiot ") produced The Cat before dying.

While the Federation worked to expel all non-union miners from the county, mine owners refused to negotiate over the Federation's complaints, and the struggle degenerated into violence by both parties ; while the mine owners tried desperately to import non-union miners from elsewhere in the state, the Federation used its clout to barricade roads and rail lines into Cripple Creek.

Over the next few miles, the river receives Big Creek, Sandstone Creek, and Whale Creek, all from the left, passes under Route 224, receives Cripple Creek, and passes under Route 224 again at the unincorporated community of Three Lynx.

The group's better-known songs, such as " The Weight ", " Up On Cripple Creek ", " Chest Fever ", " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ", " The Shape I'm In ", " Life Is A Carnival " and " It Makes No Difference ", are all present.

The old underground mines are exhausted, but open pit mining has operated since 1994 east of Cripple Creek, near its sister city of Victor, Colorado.

The county seat is Cripple Creek, and the most populous city is Woodland Park.

The gold-bearing area of the Cripple Creek district was the core of an ancient volcano of six square miles.

Cripple Creek is in the Thirtynine Mile volcanic area.

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.

Penrose refrained from purchasing or investing in mines in the Cripple Creek area because of what he saw as his ethical responsibility as a USGS employee, but did purchase and invest in mines elsewhere, including silver and copper mines in Arizona.

The Thirtynine Mile volcanic area, Central Colorado volcanic field, is an extinct volcanic area located in Park and Teller counties, Colorado, northwest of Cripple Creek and southeast of South Park.

Born in Cripple Creek, Colorado, he spent his early years exploring the local area and salvaging trade goods ( primarily firearms ) from abandoned dwellings and shelters.