Large quantity of silver at a fixed price. The government was subsidizing the silver industry so president Grover Cleveland determined to repeal the sherman silver act, which he did in 1883, and the price of silver immediately plummeted. People lost their fortunes overnight. One family in particular is a perfect illustration of the riches to rags and the silver boom and bust. The tabor family is a multifaceted story. Horace tabor was born in vermont. He married his first wife, augusta, who was also from new england. They married and briefly tried farming in kansas, then came to colorado during the gold rush in 1859. They eventually settled in the leadville area, where they ran a store. One of the things horace did was what is called grub stake. He gave the prospectors goods. They did not have to pay him. They paid him in shares. That gave him initial resources to invest in other Mining Resources. He got very lucky and stuck it in the left struck it big on several different occasions and became very wealthy. In some circles, he was known as the silver king of colorado. One of the companies he formed with partners was incorporated in new york, the silver mining company. In our collection, we have the document that created the company and really floated 10 million worth of stock in the company. We also have one of the a number of, but this is one of the early dividend checks for 5,833, which in todays money about 110,000. They lived very well. He became mayor and was elected as Lieutenant Governor of colorado. They relocated to denver and lived in denver. At some point, horace had met a very beautiful young woman. Her name is elizabeth. Sometimes she was called lizzie. And she became his mistress. In 1883, they married in a formal ceremony in washington, d. C. Ace had been appointed to fill an unexpired term of the u. S. Senator. They married during the one month when he was senator horace tabor. It was a very lavish wedding, lots of politicians came. Hundreds of dollars were spent on flowers. Her Wedding Dress cost about 7,000, so they were making the most of the Mining Resources and the wealth silver provided them. Horace, before he formally married her, he invested a lot in the infrastructure of denver. He built an opera house in leadville and he built an opera house in denver. Also what was known as the tabor block a commercial building that , was five stories tall. In the early 1880s, that was a big deal. It was a huge, beautiful building. With the opera house, he said it was his gift to the citizens of denver. To me, this is one of the items that really reflects the lavishness of the time. In return, the citizens of denver presented him with a watch bfob. Now, whether it is functional, i dont know, but it is heavy and large. Is reflective of his life. It has engraved images of the a operatednd august in leadville, of the tabor block, the buildings he built in downtown denver, and the tabor grand opera house. He and his wife lived a lavish lifestyle for 10 years until the silver crash. They had a beautiful home in denver. They had two daughters, lily, the firstborn, and Silver Dollar , whose full name was rosemary echo Silver Dollar tabor. And overnight, when the crash hit, they lost their wealth and eventually all of the findings had to go. Yre beautiful home, theyre beautiful home their , furniture. Horace, it really broke his health. He went back to physically slag in some ofg fla the mines. He was much, much older than baby doe when they married. She was about half his age. He was appointed postmaster of denver in the last year of his life courtesy of some kind friends who wrangled that appointment for him, so the last year of his life was a little more comfortable. But he died in 1899, a few years after the silver crash. It really did take a toll on him. She was still a very young woman. I think she was only 44 and still very beautiful. Supposedly, he told her to hang onto one of the mines in leadville because the price of silver would go up again and it might produce again. We dont know if thats really something he said or not, but she took those words to heart, and she did hang on to the mine, and she did move back to leadville. Her two daughters went with her. But before long, they went their separate ways. Lily went to live with baby does family in wisconsin. And Silver Dollar went to denver and then chicago, where she really seemed to struggle to find herself. She worked on the stage. She worked as a journalist. Her later years, she seems to have taken to drink and lived under a variety of different names, one assumes probably with different men. She was killed in a suspicious accident where she seems to have been scalded to death. This was in the 1920s. Baby doe never really wanted to recognize that Silver Dollar was lost and gone. But baby doe lived in the cabin at the matchless mine. This is a picture of her as an older woman in the doorway. Lived there for a little over 30 years. She lived to be 80 years old. But most importantly, she hung on to her writings, diaries, and family photographs. She kept things in trunks that she had put in storage in denver. And after she passed away, there was a group of citizens in denver who banded together to purchase these items from the estate at auction and donate them to history colorado, so we are able to share aspects of the story. It has always fascinated me that she kept the watch fob, because in her writing, she talks about not having enough money to buy food or firewood. This is something that would have had great value at the time. Bors were still wellknown. She could have sold this and other items. Them toe to hang on to keep those memories close. 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