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An important and spectacular archive within the Gary Bracken Collection, this collection records the rise and fall of Leadville's most powerful and famous couple.
The exact origins of all the material contained in the collection is not completely known. Included in the items is a personal check from 1992 for the $100 purchase of the "Baby Doe papers." It is unclear exactly which parts of this archive were contained in that group versus items Gary Bracken may have added to it later. It is suspected that the "Baby Doe Papers" refer to the personal notes and newspaper clippings from Baby Doe included in this collection.
Background
Horace Austin Warner "Haw" Tabor (November 26, 1830 - April 10, 1899), also known as "The Bonanza King of Leadville" and "The Silver King," arrived in Colorado in April 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. He was accompanied by his first wife, Augusta, and their son, Nathaniel. In 1860, he tried prospecting at California Gulch in Oro City, the area that would eventually become Leadville. But after those prospects were not successful, he relocated to Park County, settling in Laurette. There, they operated a store and Horace served as the postmaster.
In 1877, Tabor and family returned to the Oro City area and operated a general store. Heavy black sand had been plaguing miners, and--in a discovery reminiscent of the Comstock Lode "blue muck" revelation--it was found to be the lead mineral cerussite, rich in silver.
Tabor made his first fortune in the Little Pittsburg Mine. Its mine owners were not able to pay their bill at Tabor's store, so he accepted an interest in the mine as payment. His gamble paid off. On May 3, 1878, the mine revealed massive silver lodes that kicked off the Colorado Silver Boom. In 1879, Tabor sold his interest in the mine for $1 million (equivalent to $28 million today). He used to this money to invest in other mining operations, including the Chrysotile and the Matchless Mines, as well as mines and real estate in Cripple Creek, Aspen, the San Juan Mountains, and more. In 1879, his fortune was close to $6 million (or $175 million today).
Tabor and fellow mine owner August Meyer are credited with organizing/founding Leadville. Tabor also served as Leadville's first mayor.
Tabor invested heavily in Leadville. He built the Tabor Grand Hotel, the Tabor Opera House, the Bank of Leadville, newspapers, public works projects, the Tabor Block, and more. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 1878-1884, then briefly as a US Senator from Colorado (Jan.-March 1883) replacing Senator Teller. Later, he unsuccessfully ran for governor of Colorado.
In 1879, the rich Tabor family moved to Denver. However, it was not a happy home. Horace was a gambler and reckless with money, and his marriage to Augusta became strained. In 1880, he met and had an affair with Elizabeth McCourt, who would later be known as "Baby Doe." The pair met in a restaurant in Leadville, and McCourt recounted her story of arriving in Leadville and working for Jacob Sands, who was interested in her romantically. Tabor gave her $5,000, and McCourt relocated to the Windsor Hotel in Denver. In 1882, he divorced Augusta, and in 1883, he publicly married McCourt, an event that was considered very scandalous at the time. At the time, Tabor was 52 and McCourt was 28.
For a time, Horace and Baby Doe lived a life of luxury. They had two daughters, Elizabeth Bonduel "Lily" and Rosemary "Silver Dollar" Echo. But in 1893, the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act caused a drop in the price of silver that destroyed Tabor's fortune. He went back to work in mining and even became postmaster of Denver. In 1899, he fell ill with appendicitis and died on April 10th. His last wish was for the Matchless Mine to remain in Baby Doe's possession. The Aspen Tribune reported that ten thousand people attended his funeral.
Baby Doe moved back to Leadville with her daughters where they lived in a cabin structure on the Matchless Mine site. She tried to get investments to restart production in the mine, but it had severe flooding problems. This began the final dark chapter in her once luxurious life. She lived in poverty, wearing burlap sacks around her legs in the cold winters. With no money, she ate very little, living on stale bread and suet, and refused to accept charity. This was her life for her final 35 years.
Baby Doe lived in the cabin with her daughter Silver Dollar. (Her older daughter Lily had left and lived with family in Wisconsin.) Eventually, Silver Dollar left Leadville for Denver, working as a writer for the Denver Times, but struggling with alcohol abuse. She moved to Chicago, and, after working as a dancer, she became the mistress of a Chicago gangster. In 1925, Silver Dollar was found scalded to death under suspicious circumstances in her Chicago boarding house, where she had been living under the name "Ruth Norman." For the rest of her life, Baby Doe refused to believe the woman found as Ruth Norman had been her daughter, stating, "I did not see the body they said was my little girl."
During her final decades on the Matchless Mine property, Baby Doe wrote incessantly in diaries, letters, and scraps that she called "Dreams and Visions," consisting of about 2,000 fragments later found bundled in piles of paper in her cabin. (Some of these entries are included in this lot). She became very religious. Once the Queen of Leadville, she was now considered an outcast, madwoman, wandering the streets of Leadville dressed in a mixture of women's and men's clothing.
In March 1935, during a brutal winter in Leadville, she was found dead in her cabin, having frozen to death at the age of 81. Her body was taken by train to Denver, and she was buried next to Horace at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
The Archive
Horace Tabor Items
1) Three Leadville billheads for Tabor businesses. a) HAW Tabor, Dealer in Wines, Groceries, Provisions, Liquors, Miners' Supplies, Tobaccos and Cigars. 1878. Billed to Manville for 1 keg of nails. Signed for HAW Tabor. b & c) Two billheads for Tabor, Pierce & Co., Manufacturers and Dealers in Native and Eastern Lumbers, Doors, etc. 1888. Billed to Tomkins Hardware Company. (Nathaniel M. Tabor was Horace and Augusta Tabor's only child.)
2) Extremely rare brass tag for the Pioneer Stage Company. Pioneer / Stage Co. / 164 / T. & W. Marked on the reverse: Novelty MFG Co / Denver, Col. 1.5", heart shaped. c.1880. Tabor acquired an interest in this company in 1880. He formed a partnership with Perley Wasson, the original Leadville stage owner (hence "T.&W." on the tag). Stages ran into Parrott City, Fort Lewis, Silverton, and Rico. In 1881, Tabor bought out Wasson and focused the traffic between Rockwood and Rico. The company was renamed the HAW Tabor Pioneer Stage & Express Line.
3) Four stocks related to the Tabor Grand Hotel. a) Three consecutively issued stock certificates for The Leadville Hotel Company. All issued to WF Callaway in 1884. Signed by vice president Maineville and the secretary. Not cancelled. b) Stock certificate for the Tabor Grand Hotel Furnishing Company. Issued in 1886 to Callaway. Signed by vice president Henry Collins and secretary Sprague. Not cancelled. Unusual vignette of men on a raft with steamboat in the background. The Tabor Grand Hotel was built between 1883 and 1885. The Leadville Hotel Company had set out to build a first-class hotel in Leadville in 1880 but were short on money. Tabor stepped in and the hotel bore his name. The four story brick building was designed by architect George King and featured steam heat, an elevator, a bar, kitchen, wine cellar, a dining room that seated several hundred, 117 elegantly appointed rooms, a barbershop, public parlor, a billiard room, several shops, a restaurant, and a hotel lobby floor inlaid with silver dollars. It was bought by the Kitchen Bros. in 1887 and renamed the Kitchen Hotel. They sold it in 1891 and it was renamed the Vendome. It operated into the 1930s. [Ref: Colorado's Historic Hotels, Clark]
4) Ten revenue checks incl. Tabor autographs. a) Two 1878 checks from The Miners' Exchange Bank. One is signed on the back by HAW Tabor (signature smeared). The other is signed for Tabor. c) 1878 Lake County Bank check signed by Tabor on reverse. c) Seven Bank of Leadville checks, five different types. This bank was founded by Tabor. Includes two checks from JSD Manville, Hardware, and a pictorial check for the Little Pittsburg Mining Company (where Tabor made his first fortune). 1878-79, no Tabor autographs.
Baby Doe Tabor Items
1) Personal notes/reflections by Baby Doe. These astonishing pieces are a window into Baby Doe's troubled thoughts and dreams during her years in poverty in the Matchless Mine cabin. This group includes approx. 15 pieces, with all messages written in pencil on scraps of paper or postal covers. Her handwriting can be very difficult to read. They detail her descent into madness during her final years:
a) June 8th, 1934. "The devil starred at me for long time...terrible...thru south east window while I was saying my Rosary...O awful big black eyes & big dark face & big head."
b) Aug. 17, 1923. "I Received Silvers letter about Marriage O how my heart aches Jesus will be done forever." Sat. 18th, 1923. "Mrs. Shinek hunting men for No. 6 shaft. God guide us in all."
c) Small scrap of newspaper. Sept. 18, 1923. "17 devils appeared."
d) Double sided letter from Sept. 18, 1923, largely illegible. Appears to describe dream.
e) Five 1922 calendar pages with messages written in pencil on the reverse. Longest reads: "i dreamed this November. So terrible was my dream of to-day Nov. 15, 1922...that I thought it would kill me that my darling Child Silver went down the Jungle & brought up her hand & arm a devil-snake mans head on its thick copper seething sissing steaming hot body all pores & steam coming out of each pore his head was too horrifying murderously horrible. he was over coming her she was fainting & as white as snow...God of Everlasting mercy you are the only mercy there ever was or is save my Silver & Lily & her poor children..." Others: "Sept 6. Last food. no money or food." "July 9. in dream Pa came with paper in his hands elegant he looked & he brought with him Jake he wanted to renew old friendship." "June 6 1922, Jesus, St. Anthony and Saint Anthonys tongue appeared in glory to me. 5 visions. saw vision of No. 17."
f) Undated half-sheet describing two strong visions given to her by Jesus about a man and a baby.
g) Jan. 26, 1922 message about the mine: "I saw a strong vision...of our ore bucket going down No. 6 shaft...the water was flooding the Matchless Mine..."
h) 1929 visions, again involving a baby. "After the 18." "Before I saw the Vision of the Baby I saw a Vision of lots of light-purple clouds-It means a happy death because they were light purple."
i) A pencil sketch done by Baby Doe?
2) Personal and business correspondence to Baby Doe. Covers and letters. Some have small handwritten notes in pencil from Baby Doe. Approximately 50 items. Includes: 1908/09 and 1925 correspondence related to her ownership of the Matchless Mine; covers addressed to her, mostly from the 1920s and 30s; Easter card and cover from her daughter Lily; letters from friends; 1932 letter advising her to file a lawsuit against Warner Brothers for "Silver Dollar"; 1934 letter from a woman whose father worked for Horace and Baby Doe; 1929 letter from someone wanting a sample of silver ore from the mine; a typed 1928 letter detailing the struggles of the Matchless Mine and looking for a loan, possibly signed by Baby Doe; and more. Please inspect.
3) Newspaper clippings. 15 or so pieces. One has a note that it was kept by Baby Doe. A few others have pencil notations. Thus it is believed that these were all clippings kept by Baby Doe. Articles about Leadville and Horace Tabor.
4) Baby Doe items related to Jacob Sands. Six pieces. Sands was the benefactor of Baby Doe when she first arrived in Leadville and pursued her romantically. Items include: 1893 Leadville BPO Elks ledger page with Jacob Sands signature on first line; 1880s Sands, Pelton & Co., Leadville billhead; 190- Sands Brothers, Leadville billhead and letterhead; 1892 state of Colorado document, dateline Amethyst, Colorado, about draft from Sands Bros.; and 1904 Sands Outfitting Company, Denver, billhead.
5) Misc. items. Includes: 1935 Denver Post special edition all about the death of Baby Doe and the story of the Tabors; more modern newspaper clippings about Baby Doe; a dozen postcards, some RPC, of Horace and Baby Doe; unknown handwritten notes, possibly by Bracken, including recollections by Marty Lane about Baby Doe.
Date: 1870s-1930s
Country (if not USA):
State: Colorado
City: Leadville
Provenance: Gary Bracken Collection
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