Cripple Creek

noun

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

Cripple Creek

noun

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

Example Sentences

At Cripple Creek we found nearly four thousand on a man once.

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As a matter of fact he took this name to avoid an unnecessary wife in Cripple Creek.

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I am to report on the number and disposition of the enemy's forces about Cripple Creek, then, sir?

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Two days later over one thousand men were encamped in Cripple Creek.

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Think o' Cripple Creek—mine's right under the grass on the hills.

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