Author: Evelyn E. Livingston FurmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Silver Dollar Tabor, the Leaf in the Storm
Author: Evelyn E. Livingston FurmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Baby Doe Tabor
Author: Judy Nolte TemplePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806182563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado’s wealthiest mining magnate and became the “Silver Queen of the West.” Blessed with two daughters, Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized the world with their wealth and extravagance. But Baby Doe’s life was also a morality play. Almost overnight, the Tabors’ wealth disappeared when depression struck in 1893. Horace died six years later. According to the legend, one daughter left home never to return; the other died horribly. 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—until now. Author Judy Nolte Temple retells Lizzie’s story with greater accuracy than any previous biographer and reveals a story more heartbreaking than the legend, giving voice to the woman behind the myth.
Wild Women Of The Old West
Author: Richard W. EtulainPublisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 9781555912956
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Ghosts & Legends of Colorado’s Front Range
Author: Cindy BrickPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439665435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Stunning natural wonders and bustling cities make Colorado's Front Range one of the country's best places to live, but its rowdy past left some residents unable to quit the state--even in death. Outside Fort Collins, many a startled visitor spies grisly shadows hanging from the notorious Hell Tree. A reputed murderer stalks the Greeley Courthouse near where he was lynched for his alleged crimes. The disembodied heads of two vengeful banditos float through the basement of the Capitol Building in Denver. And the Broadmoor Hotel of Colorado Springs plays nightly host to a mysterious phantom lady. Author Cindy Brick reveals these and more gripping tales of the Front Range's spectral history.
From the River to the Sea
Author: John SedgwickPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982104295
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize, control, and create the American West"--
Film & Photography on the Front Range
Author: Tim BlevinsPublisher: Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN: 1567352979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Vermont History News
Author: The Mining West
Author: Richard E. LingenfelterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This two-volume set cites books, pamphlets, maps, music, directories, and other published materials (excluding materials from technical and popular magazines and newspapers) on the history of mining in the American and Canadian West. Topics covered include prospecting, mining rushes and camps, and mining finance, labor, technology, law, literature, and lore. The initial portion provides general information on mining and metalurgical technology. The subsequent regional sections are subdivided into refined historical studies, raw materials, fictional and poetic treatments, and bibliographical guides to further materials. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Colorado Heritage
Author: Inscribing the Daily
Author: Suzanne L. BunkersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
These fifteen essays explore the rich texture of women's diaries written in America and Europe over the past two centuries. The authors use a variety of critical methodologies to examine the diary as a text, as a form of women's self-inscription, as a window to the diarists' historical and contemporary lives, and as a theoretical tool that allows us to question longstanding assumptions. -- From product description.