Cripple Creek

American  

noun

1. a town in central Colorado: gold rush 1891. 9,600 feet (2,925 meters) above sea level.

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Cripple Creek British  

noun

1. a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world

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Example Sentences

Other highlights included Weir’s spectral solo performance of Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” Church’s funky “Up on Cripple Creek” and a stately version of “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by the fearsomely bearded country singer Jamey Johnson, who also spent the evening in the concert’s crack house band alongside Campbell, Tench, Don Was, Ryan Bingham and an assortment drummers, backing singers and horn players.

From Los Angeles Times

The individuals who are part of a group of tourists are stuck near the bottom of Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek.

From BBC

The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter of such classics as “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek” that mined American folklore.

From Seattle Times

The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek” mined American music and folklore and helped reshape contemporary rock.

From Seattle Times

Valades, a retired marketing director from Cripple Creek, Colo., prefers it when the hotel empties the refrigerator and lets her fill it with her own food and drinks.

From Seattle Times