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H.A.W. Tabor, the Silver King
Arthur Lakes Library Colorado Digitization Project Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
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Colorado Digitization Project
Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
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1940?-1949?
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Postcard showing Horace Austin Warner Tabor, who arrived in Colorado in 1859 with his wife Augusta and infant son, Maxey. After prospecting for gold in a series of camps, Tabor settled in Buckskin Joe where he ran a successful store and was elected postmaster, but he later moved his store to Oro City in California Gulch. In 1878 he grubstaked a pair of prospectors, who struck rich silver deposits at the Little Pittsburg Mine, and according to the grubstake agreement, Tabor was entitled to a one-third interest in the mine. The Little Pittsburg produced $1,800,000 in silver before it played out a few years later. Tabor went on to make millions by investing in other mines such as the Chrysolite and Matchless, and he became the Mayor of Leadville and the Lieutenant Govenor of Colorado. He built opera houses in Leadville and Denver and outfitted the Tabor Hose Company and the Tabor Light Calvalry. Then in a scandel that rocked Colorado society, he divorced his wife Augusta ...
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