Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor

Caroline BancroftProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.3
Word count
257K words
Chapters
26

Tags

English Originals Women's Biography Social ObservationLegendary LivesRise and FallFate and FortuneFemale LegendsTragic LifeMining TownFamous FiguresWealth StoriesWestward Expansion

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor by Caroline BancroftAuthor: Bancroft, Caroline,Language: English, Class: CT: History: Biography, Release Date: Jun 23, 2016

Editor's review

This is Caroline Bancroft's biography of Baby Doe Tabor, a work of historical biography released by Project Gutenberg as a free e-book. Its value lies in telling the life of a woman bound up with silver mining, wealth and the changes of an era within a historical context, suited to readers interested in nineteenth-century American Western history, mining society and women's fortunes. As a public-domain e-book it is easy to search and read through, fitting extended reading for history enthusiasts, biographical interest reading, and introductory material on American Western narrative traditions. Written in English, its length and narrative manner reflect the popular biography style of the mid-twentieth century; readers may treat it as light historical reading rather than a scholarly work of textual criticism.

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  1. Skim the table of contents and chapter titles first to grasp the main stages of Baby Doe Tabor's life before reading through.
  2. While reading, consult background on American Western mining history to understand the relation between the silver boom and bust and the subject's fate.
  3. Distinguish the book's narrative from established public historical knowledge, and verify specific facts separately.

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Contents

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What kind of work is this book? It is an English biography of Baby Doe Tabor, a work of historical biography released by Project Gutenberg as a free e-book. Its narrative style is popular rather than scholarly, making it a good introduction to this woman and her era.
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About the author

Caroline Bancroft Author · American · 1900–1985

Caroline Bancroft (1900–1985) was an American journalist and Colorado history writer born in Denver. She is known for her pamphlets on Colorado history and pioneer subjects, often focusing on the Tabor family, Leadville, and Central City, writing in an accessible and vivid style that highlights the fates of historical figures and local memory. Her representative works include Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor, Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots, and Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal. The opera The Ballad of Baby Doe and the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown drew on her writings, and in 1990 she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. Public information is limited, and details of her life are not widely circulated, but her writing has had a lasting influence on the popular understanding of Colorado's local history.