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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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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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"Early promoters of Colorado's Western Slope would have had settlers believe the area was one of proper behavior and upstanding morality. But this was not the case. Hot tempers led to quick trigger fingers and Main Street shootouts. Drinking, gambling and thieving were popular pursuits, and law breaking of all kinds thrived in this wild land. From Charles Graham, whose jealous rampage in Grand Junction is still talked about today, and the mysterious...