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The first wife of Horace Tabor, wealthy owner of the Matchless mine in Colorado and owned the Tabor block in Denver, Colorado.
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Creede, a rip-roaring Colorado mining camp, was founded in 1890 and was soon known across the country for its great mineral strikes and in 1893 Ernest Bennett, skilled and capable but with a fiddlefoot, had whisked his family from the woods of Michigan to the bananza area near the headwaters of the Rio Grande River.
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"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives, and helped write the history of the West....
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For over 80 years, historians and authors alike have filled dozens of books describing her as crazy or mad. They claim that Mrs. Tabor spent 36 years living the life of a hermit, inside an old tool shed, located at a silver mine she didn't even own...but nothing could be farther from the truth. Marrying first for money, then engaging in two scandalous affairs, Elizabeth Tabor set social protocol aside to become the Silver Queen of Colorado, before...
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"Laura Evens wasn't any ordinary soiled dove from the days of Colorado's Wild West. Raised by a Grand Cyclops of the KKK from the Mobile, Alabama branch, she wasn't about to let anything stand in the way of what she wanted. She wanted to be rich. From a lesbian encounter during her first audition into the trade, a gun fight to help save her business, her failed attempts to prevent her friends from poisoning themselves, selling bootleg booze for her...
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H.A.W. Tabor and his Yankee bride left the stone quarries of New England for the free soil of Kansas, thence pursuing their search for riches to the Colorado Mountains. They witnessed (and aided) the birth of Denver and they kept store in mining camps. The rise to wealth and the wholly incredible way of life of this latter-day Croesus are one of the major fables of the West. In this saga David Karsner has extracted, with admirable judgement, the bizarre...
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Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West -- Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.
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"Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Colorado History" features seventeen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Centennial State. Phyllis J. Perry reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Colorado's past -- both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through"--P. [4] of cover.