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Cripple Creek

Colorado, United States
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Cripple Creek, city, seat (1899) of Teller county, central Colorado, U.S., overlooked by Mount Pisgah (10,400 feet [3,170 metres]). It lies west of Colorado Springs in a granite pocket 9,600 feet (2,925 metres) above sea level, at the edge of Pike National Forest. In 1891 gold was discovered in nearby Poverty Gulch by Robert Womack, a cowboy (who died poor), and in nearby Victor by Winfield Scott Stratton, a carpenter (who left a fortune of...

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