Part III: Albert Barnes Whitmore

摘要

Sometime during the winter of 1938, Whitmore suffered a paralyzing stroke and was hospitalized at the Cripple Creek Hospital. Hurianek( 1980) reported that "...he suffereda stroke, as he was entering his cabin with firewood. A concerned close friend, P. J. Holmes of Cripple Creek, worried about Whitmore, arrived at the cabin just in time to save him from freezing to death. He bundled Whitmore off to the hospital in Cripple Creek, The intrepid mountain man refused to have his frozen feet amputated. He survived his ordeal and was able to walk with a cane. "