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Fifty for 150: Colorado state troops sent to Cripple Creek miners’ strike in 1894

An 1894 photograph shows the Colorado state militia's camp in the Cripple Creek mining district, where troops were sent to enforce the terms of a union agreement with mine owners for an eight-hour workday. (Courtesy of Denver Public Library Special Collections, Z-2742)After gold was discovered in a high mountain valley southwest of Pikes Peak in 1890, thousands of fortune-seekers flocked to the overnight boomtown of Cripple Creek, along with sat…

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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel broke the news on Thursday, July 23, 2026.
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