Loading...
Rose Mary Echo Tabor
Arthur Lakes Library Colorado Digitization Project Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado Digitization Project
Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
Citations
Altmetric:
Advisor
Editor
Date
1940?-1949?
Date Issued
Date Submitted
Keywords
Collections
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Embargo Expires
Abstract
Postcard showing Rose Mary Echo (Silver Dollar), who was born in 1889. She was the daughter of Horace Tabor, a wealthy silver mine owner and community leader in Leadville, and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt Doe (Baby Doe). As a young child, she lived a life of luxury. Silver Dollar and her sister, Elizabeth Bonduel Lillie, were often dressed in outfits that cost a thousand dollars each. But poor investments and the crash of the silver market in 1893 depleted the Tabors' wealth. After her father's death in 1899, Silver Dollar lived in poverty with her mother, first in rooming houses in Denver and then in a cabin at the Matchless Mine in Leadville. In 1914, Silver Dollar left Leadville to live on her own, but she became a prostitute and was scalded to death in Chicago in 1925.
Associated Publications
Rights
Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html