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1) Augusta Tabor, her side of the scandal

Author

Bancroft, Caroline

2) Silver Dollar : The story of the Tabors

Author

Karsner, David

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H.A.W. Tabor and his bride Augusta left New England for Kansas and then to the Colorado Mountains to pursue wealth. They were a part of Denver's early history. Tabor became very wealthy and became lieutenant governor , U.S. Senator, politician, capitalist, parton of the arts, and an empire builder on a grand scale. He divorced Augusta and married a divorcee of the mining camps Baby Doe. He died a pauper. Three women shared his struggles, Augusta,...

3) Augusta Tabor: a pioneering woman

Author

Moynihan, Betty

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4) Tabor's Matchless Mine and lusty Leadville

Author

Bancroft, Caroline

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Book, Local Library Checkout Only

5) Augusta Tabor: her side of the scandal

Author

Bancroft, Caroline

Pub. Date

1955,1968

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Colorado Collection

6) The Two Lives of Baby Doe

Author

Simmons, Dawn Langley

Pub. Date

1962

7) The Tabors: a footnote of western history

Author

Gandy, Lewis Cass

8) The Two Lives of Baby Doe

Author

Hall, Gordon Langley

Pub. Date

c1962

9) From Kansas to the Matchless: a Tabor story, 1857-1880

Author

Williamson, Ruby G

Pub. Date

c1975

10) Augusta Tabor

Author

Bancroft, Caroline

Pub. Date

c1961

11) Matchless

Author

Coleman, Jane Candia

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Book, Large Print

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Horace and Augusta Tabor left Maine to seek their fortune and ended up in the mining camps of Colorado. While Horace panned for gold, Augusta prepared meals for miners. Eventually, she opened a store and became postmistress while raising their young son. One day they were happily at work--Augusta in the store and Horace as mayor of Leadville--and the next day Horace struck it rich. From then on, everything Horace Tabor touched turned to gold or, rather,...

12) Tabor Family Album

Author

Blair, Edward

Pub. Date

1981

13) Augusta Tabor: enterprising pioneer

Author

Major, Diane C

Series

Great lives in Colorado history

Pub. Date

[2013]

14) Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin

Author

Temple, Judy Nolte

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"Long before her body was found frozen in the Leadville shack where for decades she had guarded the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor was the stuff of legend. For thirty-five years, Baby Doe, who was considered mad, lived in solitude high in the Colorado Rockies. Baby Doe Tabor left a record of her madness in a set of writings she called her "Dreams and Visions." These were discovered after her death but never studied in detail -...

15) The strange, uncertain years

Author

Ellis, Amanda M

Pub. Date

1959

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The history of six Colorado communities: Denver, Colorado Springs, Central City, Leadville, Cripple Creek and the four corners area, from the time of the Indians to the 1950s.

16) Frozen to the cabin floor: the biography of Baby Doe Tabor, 1854-1935

Author

Beach, Tracy

Pub. Date

2019

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Book, Local Library Checkout Only

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Forget everything you thought you knew about Mrs. Elizabeth Bonduel Tabor. 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...