At gunpoint below Black Hawk
“Clear Creek Annie,” armed with a court order and two double-barreled shotguns, reigned supreme over her 100-foot strip of land Tuesday. Engineers for the state highway department – men who think nothing of cutting a slice out of a mountain to put in a road – kept at a safe distance, and work on a $3,500,000 superhighway was stopped cold.
Mrs. Annie Davis, a 68-year-old woman miner who obtained “squatter’s rights” on the land, lives in a converted railroad car.
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