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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
 Story of Cripple Creek
This first Cripple Creek excitement began and ended somewhat after the style of a certain historic military incident, in which it is related that the great commander marched his army up the hill and then marched down again.
Cripple Creek proper is a large city for its age.
Cripple Creek, the greatest gold camp in the entire world to-day, is situated but eighteen miles south of Florissant, and, in fact, was brought to the notice of the public through the efforts of some of the enterprising citizens of the latter town.
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com /library/book-history_of_cripple_creek.htm/hocc.htm   (11692 words)

  
 Cripple Creek, Colorado: Gold Mining In The World's Greatest Gold Camp!
Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Co., a subsidiary of AngloGold-Ashanti, operates the largest surface mine and heap leach gold mine in the state of Colorado.
Old-time maps of Cripple Creek may be found at the Library of Congress Panoramic Maps Section.
The Cripple Creek District Museum and Lowell Thomas Museum in Victor offer glimpses of the golden era of the mining district.
www.cripple-creek.co.us /gold.html   (392 words)

  
 Definition of Cripple from dictionary.net
The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go.
To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
www.dictionary.net /cripple   (197 words)

  
 Cripple Creek, Colorado-Cabins, Lodging, Camping
Nestled in an extinct volcano crater and riddled with gold fields is one of the most famous towns in south central Colorado.
The 1890's gold rush helped to build Cripple Creek as the race to stake the first claim and "strike it rich" was on.
Cripple Creek's year 'round limited stakes gambling casinos offer an opportunity to "strike it rich" nowadays.
www.coloradodirectory.com /cripplecreek   (780 words)

  
 Cripple Creek - Colorado Ghost Town
Located not too far west of Colorado Springs, Cripple Creek offers the visitor an excellent opportunity to examine the area that produced more wealth than any other on the face of the earth up to the year 1930-over $400 million in gold.
The calf was crippled causing the rancher to refer to the creek as "Cripple Creek." There are many buildings, mines and other sights suggestive of the town's history for the visitor to enjoy.
Cripple Creek once had a population in excess of 35,000.
www.ghosttowns.com /states/co/cripplecreek.html   (447 words)

  
 Cripple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cripple is a dated term for a disabled person, particularly one who is unable to walk due to an injury or illness.
The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and generally came to be regarded as pejorative in the United States and Britain during the 1960s.
Cripple Need Cane, a rock band from Los Angeles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cripple   (165 words)

  
 Colorado History - Early Cripple Creek District Photos
Placer miners equipped with pans and sluices at gold-laced Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1892.
Cripple Creek residents moved household possessions moments ahead of the second fire of 1896.
Cripple Creek officially achieved "city" status in 1897.
members.tripod.com /~Mr_sedivy/colorado25.html   (612 words)

  
 Geology of the Cripple Creek Mining District
The Cripple Creek Mining District is located within a Tertiary age alkaline volcanic/diatreme complex dated at approximately 33.4 Ma (Jensen, 2003).
The bulk of the Cripple Creek volcanic complex is composed of a highly variable breccia unit, Cripple Creek Breccia, containing heterolithic diatremal breccia, volcanoclastic sediments, and bedded tuffs.
The Cripple Creek diatreme was emplaced during the regional retreat of the Paleogene Volcanic Arc after 43 Ma in a dilatant part of the Laramide architecture.
www.ccvgoldmining.com /Geology/geology.html   (2072 words)

  
 Cripple Mr Onion
Cripple are filling a gap at Hysteria on Saturday night, along with another band yet to be confirmed.
Cripple Mr Onion are having a special night at the Dux to say thank you to Ross and the Dux crew for all their support over the years, and to bid farewell to their friends and fans.
Cripple Mr Onion bassist Shoki is over in Tokyo visiting family and saving cash to return to NZ while the rest of the crew work on finishing the long anticipated new album...
www.cripple.co.nz   (1261 words)

  
 Attractions in Cripple Creek, Colorado
The Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad departs from its depot next to the museum at Bennett Avenue and Fifth Street.
Cripple Creek is one of three cities in the state approved for limited-stakes gambling.
Mueller State Park located north of Cripple Creek on Hwy 67 anchors at the west side of Pikes Peak and extends over 5,000 acres across some of the most gorgeous land in the state.
www.centralcolorado.com /cripplecreek/attractions.htm   (638 words)

  
 Small Format Aerial Photography:
Known as "America’s greatest gold camp," Cripple Creek grew from just a few people in 1890, when gold was first discovered by a cowboy named Bob Womack, to a population of 60,000 during its heyday.
The Cripple Creek volcanic complex has several explosive vents localized along a central fissure (diatreme), composed of a breccia (fragments of angular rock), intruded by a series of phonolite dikes and sills which display shattered textures.
This photo depicts the mining cycle of "drill, blast, muck, and haul." The bench is blasted with amonium nitrate shortly after the three drill rigs have drilled a pattern.
home.att.net /~sgeoveatch/CrippleCreek/ccrw.htm   (1227 words)

  
 Cabela's Iditarod - The Trail - Cripple to Ruby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cripple Creek to Ruby The trail from Ophir to Ruby is broken out just once a year.
After Cripple Creek, the trail goes through spruce and birch and becomes more difficult as it steadily works through a range of mountains (the Ruby Hills) running parallel to the Yukon.
After Cripple Creek, the country is very remote and the mushers rarely if ever encounter anybody on the trail.
www.cabelasiditarod.com /trailn_cripple_ruby.html   (692 words)

  
 Cripple Creek, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cripple Creek is 44 miles south west of Colorado Springs, Colorado on the southern slopes of Pike's Peak.
With many empty storefronts and picturesque homes, Cripple Creek was a tourist attractions as a ghost town, although it was never entirely deserted.
Cripple Creek has a population of around 1500 residents and is currently more of a gambling and tourist town than a ghost town.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cripple_Creek,_Colorado   (1266 words)

  
 Working Girls of Cripple Creek
At the urging of Cripple Creek discoverer Bob Womack, Blanche set up her striped tent in Poverty Gulch, just down the hill from his cabin.
Cripple Creek wives had little wish to do their daily shopping in the presence of prostitutes; therefore, the town prostitutes were permitted to do their personal shopping on only one morning per week.
Most Cripple Creek newspapers accepted the coroner's verdict that Pearl had died by accidental overdose, but at least one newspaper insinuated Pearl had committed suicide.
www.cripplecreekhistory.com /working_girls.htm   (2023 words)

  
 FEMA: Brace Cripple Walls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One example of earthquake protection, for a house built on a cripple wall foundation, is bracing the cripple wall to increase structural stability.
As shown in the figure, a cripple wall is a short wall that rests on the foundation and supports the floor and exterior walls.
If your house is built on cripple walls, one way to increase its stability and reduce earthquake damage is to brace the cripple walls.
www.fema.gov /plan/prevent/howto/how2012.shtm   (532 words)

  
 Cripple Creek Hat Company
About Us Cripple Creek Hat Company was founded in 1975 by Paul Siracusa, who is still the president and still selects and designs all Cripple Creek® hats.
Paul wanted his work to be available to more than just the rich and famous, so he designed a line of high-quality, affordable hats that combined the classic cowboy and outdoors look with accents such as coins, fur, feathers, and textured leather for sale in fine apparel outlets.
Cripple Creek hats are most popular in the American West, or anywhere where people value the same, uniquely rugged yet stylish look.
www.cripplecreekheadwear.com /About.htm   (217 words)

  
 Cripple Creek District Labor Strike of 1903 - 1904
As a counter move the federation went to Cripple Creek and served notice upon the mine owners who were shipping ore to Colorado City that the mills were "unfair" and that such shipments must be discontinued.
This cannot be true because as I outlined earlier, this issue was already settled in the strike of 1893-94.
This enabled Haywood to call for the strike at the Standard mine in Colorado City in August 1903, and the subsequent strike in the Cripple Creek District.
members.tripod.com /~mr_sedivy/colorado21.html   (1018 words)

  
 cripple - CD ripper wrapper
Cripple is a simple command line CD ripper wrapper.
Cripple retrives naming information for filenames and ID3 tags from the freedb (CDDB) or local xmcd/CDDB format files, which it can write.
On the majority of systems cripple requires no special libraries, interpreters etc. However by its very nature it requires a command line ripper such as cdparanoia or cdda2wav and an encoder such as lame or bladeenc.
www.vortex.prodigynet.co.uk /cripple   (654 words)

  
 Log cabin rental in Virginia - The Blue Ridge Mountains
Cripple Creek's cabins are actual log cabins designed and built for your use and comfort.
Cripple Creek Cabins specializes in log cabin rental in Virginia.
Cripple Creek cabins offers homemade breakfast delivered to your Wytheville, Virginia bed and breakfast.
www.cripplecreekcabins.com   (199 words)

  
 Vacation rental cabins in Virginia - Cripple Creek Cabins
Because you deserve to relax and unwind or to reconnect with the one you love, we invite you to experience Cripple Creek Bed and Breakfast Cabins.
Whether it is enjoying quiet moments in country rockers on your cabin porch, exploring our acreage, or celebrating special moments indoors, you will experience a sense of tranquil relaxation.
At Cripple Creek Bed and Breakfast Cabins, we want to be invisible, as this is your time to relax and enjoy.
www.cripplecreekcabins.com /blueridgecabinrental.aspx   (321 words)

  
 Peter Viney: Up on Cripple Creek
This Cripple Creek in Colorado was the site of the largest gold strike ever in the lower 48 states of the USA, when people flooded into the Pikes Peak area in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado looking for gold.
I doubt that Cripple Creek has any underlying underground railroad reference; the population of the area in which the tune originated were mostly farmers of English, Scotch and Irish origin (only 10% of the population of the South were rich slave owners; Appalachia has a minimal African-American population).
I guess you could argue that she sends him up on Cripple Creek (West) because she's a "tart with a heart of gold" so that Cripple Creek is the gold he discovers in her.
theband.hiof.no /articles/up_on_cripple_creek_viney.html   (4842 words)

  
 ATSDR - PHA - Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado
The Cripple Creek mining district is on the western edge of Pikes Peak, about 100 miles south of Denver (Appendix A).
However, most roads in Cripple Creek and Victor are not paved; the unpaved roads are probably a major contributor to dust conditions in these towns.
Since dusty conditions are known to occur in Cripple Creek and Victor from other sources (recreational activities, road sanding, unpaved roads), persons with pre-existing respiratory illnesses should avoid remaining outdoors for long periods of time during these periods.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/cripplecreek/cri_p1.html   (5068 words)

  
 Instrument Repair in Ashland by Cripple Creek Music Co.
Cripple Creek Music Company is proud to service what we sell.
Cripple Creek Music wants you to have the best possible instrument to achieve your success and enjoyment.
Cripple Creek Music Company wants to be your full service music store.
www.cripplecreekmusic.com /repair.htm   (152 words)

  
 Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek Traditional Mandolin tablature by Elizabeth T. Knuth, 1998 Key: G Verse: E--------3-----3--3----------------------0-----------------
If you like, you can hear a MIDI file of "Cripple Creek".
Cripple Creek / Revised 18 April 2004 / © Copyright 2004, Elizabeth T. Knuth / URL: http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/mandotab/cripplec.html
www.users.csbsju.edu /~eknuth/mandotab/cripplec.html   (146 words)

  
 Cripple Creek Motel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Cripple Creek Motel is located at 201 N. Bison and Hwy.
Pets are welcome at the Cripple Creek Motel; we are the ONLY motel in town that will accept pets.
The burros are descendants of the donkeys that helped miners in the 1890 gold rush that made Cripple Creek famous.
www.cripplecreekmotel.com   (220 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cripple Creek: A Novel: Books: James Sallis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Through flashbacks and flashforwards, most of these episodes unconnected to the rest of the narrative, he shows Turner in action--a genuinely kind and empathetic person, at the same time that he is violent and filled with bloodlust.
One of the most unusual and intelligent mysteries I've read in years, Cripple Creek is unique, a novel in which every word counts, even when those words are not adding to the plot.
Turner, ex-cop, ex-con, ex-therapist, is serving as deputy sheriff in backwoods Cripple Creek, Tennessee.
www.amazon.com /Cripple-Creek-Novel-James-Sallis/dp/0802733824   (2580 words)

  
 Cripple Creek Attractions
The Cripple Creek and Victor Railroad departs from the old Midland Terminal Depot, located at the head of Bennett avenue in Cripple Creek.
The track goes south out of Cripple Creek, past the old Midland Terminal Wye over a reconstructed trestle, past many historic mines and terminates near the deserted mining camp of Anaconda, then returns back to Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek Park and Recreation offers a variety of activities and programs.
www.cripplecreekpackages.com /attractions.htm   (235 words)

  
 Cripple Creek, Colorado
Cripple Creek Web Cam, showing Bennett Ave., the main street in town
View of Cripple Creek from the mountain pass on Highway 67.
It used to be a train station, with living quarters on the third floor.
www.homepages.dsu.edu /jankej/oldwest/crippleC.htm   (267 words)

  
 Carr Manor - Cripple Creek, Colorado - BBOnline.com / Introduction
The southern 60 feet of the school were built in 1897 with the northern portion built in 1905.
For the new owners, Gary and Wini Ledford, Cripple Creek High School is a study in history.
Winter in Cripple Creek is mild considering it's 9,464 feet above sea level elevation.
www.bbonline.com /co/carrmanor   (402 words)

  
 Cripple Clarence Lofton - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cripple Clarence Lofton, was born Albert Clemens on January 9th,...
Cripple Clarence Lofton was an integral part of the Boogie-Woogie genre in Chicago.
Download, listen and watch Cripple Clarence Lofton music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/cripple-clarence-lofton/99143/main   (149 words)

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