Duane A. Smith - Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend
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Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend is the first biography to give full attention to Tabors mining, business, and political activities as well as to his matrimonial escapades. It is a careful and detailed portrait of a man so extraordinary that even in his own lifetime the facts were largely obscured behind the legend. Rarely has the Victorian American West, both good and bad, been better synopsized in the figure of one man.
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Horace Tabor. State Historical Society of Colorado.
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Horace Tabor
His Life and the Legend
Duane A. Smith
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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Copyright 1989 by the University Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO 80544
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado and Western State College.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences--Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smith, Duane A Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend
Originally published: Colorado Associated University Press, 1973. 1. Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, 1830-1899. 2. Pioneer ColoradoBiography. 3. IndustrialistsColoradoBiog raphy. 4. ColoradoLieutenant-governorsBiography. I. Title.
F781.T322S63 1989 328.73'092 [B] 89-24878 ISBN 0-87081-206-8
Printed in the United States of America
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FOR GAY
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Contents
Preface
vii
Prologue: The Legendary Tabor
ix
I. Search for the Promised Land, 1855-1877
1. Time of Testing
3
2. Fifty-Niner Miner
15
3. Quiet Years
36
II. Summer's Prosperity, 1877-1880
4. Bonanza
59
5. The Political Itch
79
6. Leadville's Son Becomes Denver's Patron
93
7. Sowing the Wind
109
8. Reaping the Whirlwind
127
9. Colorado's Entrepreneur
149
III. Disillusionment of Success, 1881-1889
10. "A Union Grand of Capital and Labor"
171
11. To Aspen and Beyond
190
12. The Great Senate Race
207
13. For the Love of Baby Doe
225
14. The Tabors at Home
246
15. Eroding Empire
259
IV. Twilight of a Legend, 1889-1899
16. So Fleet the Works
281
17. Back to the Earth Again
301
18. Measurement of a Man
316
Notes
325
Bibliography
369
Index
389
Map
396
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Preface
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