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Colorado History: REMEMBER THEIR NAMES

Discover the MADAMS of Colorado and their impact.

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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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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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