Cripple Creek Miners' Strike

Date: June 6, 1894 • Location: Cripple Creek, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1894–1894.

Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.

Davis Hanson Waite was an American politician. He was a member of the Populist Party, and he served as the eighth governor of Colorado from 1893 to 1895.