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Horace Tabor migrated from Vermont to Colorado during the Gold Rush of 1859. During that time, he could have redeemed his mortgaged farm and worked as a miner, but instead decided to invest and open a general store. In 1878, Tabor bank-rolled two partners at the Little Pittsburgh Mine in Leadville, which at that time was rich in silver.
One of the most famous mines in Colorado, the Matchless Mine in the Leadville Mining District produced millions of dollars’ worth of silver for its owner, Horace Tabor, in the early 1880s.The mine is perhaps best known, however, as the home of Horace Tabor’s second wife, Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor, who lived there on and off for more than three decades after Horace’s death, hoping ...
Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend. Duane A. Smith. Colorado Associated University Press, 1973 - Biography & Autobiography - 395 pages. The first biography to give full attention to Tabor's mining, business, and political activities as well as to his matrimonial escapades, this is a careful and detailed portrait of a man so extraordinary ...
14 de jun. de 2021 · It’s a nod to Horace Tabor, who came to Leadville in the late 1850s to strike it rich. After two decades of backbreaking work and grinding poverty, Tabor hit a mother lode of silver.
The Tabors. The legendary story of the Tabors–complete with a riches-to-rags tragedies and a love triangle–played out in Leadville, Colorado. Horace Tabor, who owned a general mercantile store with his wife Augusta, invested in mining with incredible success. Horace amassed great wealth almost overnight in 1879 when he bought the Matchless ...
18 de sept. de 2020 · In 1953, Central City Opera commissioned a new opera based on the first famous love triangle in Colorado history, between Silver King Horace Tabor, his wife of 26 years Augusta and the beautiful Baby Doe from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. And the tale of the opera’s creation is almost as good as the true story of the Tabors themselves.
Horace Austin Warner "Haw" Tabor, also known as The Bonanza King of Leadville and The Silver King, was an American prospector, businessman, and Republican politician. His success in Leadville, Colorado's silver mines made him one of the wealthiest men in Colorado. He purchased more mining enterprises throughout Colorado and the Southwestern United States, and he was a philanthropist.
