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diff --git a/old/50934.txt b/old/50934.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a84bbee..0000000 --- a/old/50934.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1283 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Augusta Tabor, by Caroline Bancroft - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Augusta Tabor - Her Side of the Scandal - -Author: Caroline Bancroft - -Release Date: January 15, 2016 [EBook #50934] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUGUSTA TABOR *** - - - - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - AUGUSTA - TABOR - _HER SIDE OF THE SCANDAL_ - - - By Caroline Bancroft Price 75c - - Copyright 1955 by Caroline Bancroft. Fifth edition, 1968 - -_All rights in this book are reserved. It may not be used for dramatic, - radio, television, motion or talking picture purposes without written - authorization._ - - Johnson Publishing Co., Boulder, Colorado - - [Illustration] - - - - - The Author - - -Caroline Bancroft is a third generation Coloradan who began writing her -first history for The Denver Post in 1928. - -Her long-standing interest in western history was inherited. Her pioneer -grandfather, Dr. F. J. Bancroft, was a founder of the Colorado -Historical Society and its first president. - -His granddaughter has carried on the family tradition. She is the author -of the interesting series of Bancroft Booklets, _Silver Queen: The -Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor_, _Famous Aspen_, _Denver's Lively -Past_, _Historic Central City_, _The Brown Palace in Denver_, _Tabor's -Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville_, _Glenwood's Early Glamor_, _Augusta -Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal_, _The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown_, _Unique -Ghost Towns_, _Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure_, and the -basic, over-all history, _Colorful Colorado_. - -A Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, she later obtained a Master of -Arts degree from the University of Denver, writing her thesis on Central -City, Colorado. Her full-sized _Gulch of Gold_ is the attractive, -definitive history of that well-known area. - -She is shown standing beside the headgate at Lake Caroline on Mt. -Bancroft, a Continental Divide peak named for her grandfather. The photo -was taken by Charles Eaton in the summer of 1956. - - STEPHEN L. R. McNICHOLS - Governor of Colorado - 1957-63 - - [Illustration] - - - - - Augusta Tabor: - _Her Side of the Scandal_ - - -"She is a blonde, I understand, and paints. But I have never seen her." - -Augusta Tabor made this remark about Baby Doe in the course of a long -interview that she gave to a reporter for the _Denver Republican_. The -account appeared on October 31, 1883, and carried several heads. One of -these read, "Mrs. Tabor No. 1 makes some spicy revelations." - -Augusta received her caller in the elegantly furnished sitting-room of -her twenty-room mansion. The house stood at the corner of Seventeenth -Avenue and Lincoln Street but faced Broadway. Its address was 97 -Broadway, and was entered along a spruce-lined circular driveway. The -house and its surrounding block of land had been part of her divorce -settlement from the millionaire Silver King, Horace A. W. Tabor. - -That divorce in the January preceding had been a national scandal, only -to be topped by the even greater scandal of her former husband's -remarriage. The wedding was performed on March 1 in Washington where -Tabor had gone to serve a thirty-day term as senator. It was attended by -a number of political big-wigs, including President Chester Arthur; but -they came without their wives. The women drew a sharp line against -recognizing "that blonde," the former Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt Doe. - -The best people continued to draw that line. When the Tabors returned to -Denver after their honeymoon, no one called on the second Mrs. Tabor. -But shortly afterward Augusta came home from California where she had -taken her broken heart. Two hundred and fifty people organized a -surprise reception for her at her palatial residence. - -But in the following months Augusta brooded. - -"I do not consider myself divorced from Mr. Tabor," she told the -reporter. "The whole proceedings were irregular. If it were not for my -son, Maxcy, I would commence suit tomorrow to have the divorce annulled. -I repeat, it was illegal." - -"Do you think Mr. Tabor would live with you if you were to have the -divorce set aside?" the reporter asked. - -"No, I couldn't hope for that. But it would be a great deal of -satisfaction to know that that woman was no more to him than she was -before he gave her his name and mine." - -Augusta glanced over to the center table where she had laid down her -sewing, a piece of silk patchwork. The reporter thought she looked -lonely and sad-faced. Then she sighed. - -"Well, there has been scandal enough, God knows. It would make a big -volume if put in book form. It has aged me." - -A new chapter of the scandal was being enacted that week. Horace Tabor -was suing his old friend and business manager, William H. Bush, for -$25,000 because of sundry debts, including a $2,000 embezzlement as -former manager of the Tabor Grand Opera House of Denver. Bush had -retaliated with a counter-suit against Tabor, asking payment for all -sorts of flagrant services performed for the Silver King. The juicy -trial was the sensation of the week. - -Augusta had been called to testify for Bush. Her testimony had been very -titillating; and she had startled the court even further by crossing -over and sitting down beside Tabor while she tried to engage him in -conversation. - -"Mr. Tabor has changed a great deal," she commented to the reporter. "He -used to detest women of that kind. He would never allow me to whitewash -my face however much I desired to do so. She wants his money and will -hang to him as long as he has got a nickel. She don't want an old man." - -The reporter ventured the suggestion that the fifty-two-year old Tabor -was not such an old man. - -"Oh, yes he is! He dyes his hair and moustache. I noticed him in the -court room the other day. He was afraid to draw his handkerchief across -his mouth for fear of staining it. I also noticed that the hair on his -temples, which is gray, was colored nicely to give him a rejuvenated -appearance." - -Augusta and the reporter conversed for two solid columns of small, -tightly-packed print while she revealed a number of intimate matters. -The details of the secret, illegal, first divorce which Tabor had -procured from her in March, 1882, were set forth. Augusta claimed the -charges had been a lie from beginning to end and gave conclusive data in -refutation. - -"Mr. Tabor used to be a truthful man. He is changed now," she remarked -indignantly. After a pause, she continued with: - -"I understand that she has her family quartered at his home. I mean all -in this country. I understand that a fresh invoice is coming over from -Ireland." - -The reporter smiled at her sally and encouraged her to talk on. She -showed him three scrapbooks that she was making of clippings about -Tabor. (These scrapbooks are now in the Western History Collection of -the Denver Public Library, and contain this particular interview along -with many others.) Augusta explained that at first she had only saved -newspaper articles that spoke well of him. But now she was saving -everything, and the later clippings were all derogatory. - - [Illustration: SILVER DOLLARS ATOP TABOR BUILDINGS - - _The two buildings on the left at the corner of Harrison, looking down - Chestnut, were Tabor's bank and store; in 1879's booming Leadville._] - -"Is there really seventeen in that McCourt family? Well, there is one -thing that Mr. Tabor cannot say, and that is that any of my relatives -ever lived off him. Not one of them ever received a cent from him. That -woman will break him up." - -Augusta liked to talk to newspaper people. She, herself, had contributed -to Eastern newspapers and been a member of the Colorado State Press -Association. In July, 1879, she attended a meeting of the Association at -Manitou in company with Flora Stevens, a correspondent for the Kansas -City _Times_. Miss Stevens later wrote Augusta up under the heading, "A -Rich Man's Wife," in which she said that Augusta kept an extensive -journal during the trip to Manitou. Unfortunately this particular -example of Augusta's authorship has not been preserved. - -Augusta also liked to visit newspaper offices. In May, 1879, she brought -a visitor, "her dainty niece," Suzie Marston, to see the various -departments of the _Rocky Mountain News_. This girl was from Augusta, -Maine, the family home-town, after which Augusta had been named. Augusta -took her niece on trips around Colorado and in 1889 chaperoned her on a -diversified tour of Europe while they traveled with the George Tritches -of Denver. - -The first Mrs. Tabor's habit of calling on writers has preserved for us -a very fine autobiography. In September of 1883 Mrs. Alice Polk Hill of -Denver, who had lived in Colorado for a decade or so, decided to compile -a book by collecting reminiscences and informal bits of history. She -spent several months traveling about the state to obtain material. -Sometime prior to the publication of her book in 1884, she arrived in -Leadville and stayed at the Clarendon Hotel. Augusta, who was visiting -her sister, Mrs. Melvina L. Clarke, in Leadville at the time, came to -call. - -Mrs. Hill was delighted and later described Augusta as a "frail, -delicate-looking woman with pleasing manners." - -More importantly, Mrs. Tabor No. 1 wrote out a detailed account of her -early marriage, much of which Mrs. Hill used in her first book, "Tales -of the Colorado Pioneers," but which has survived intact in the _Denver -Republican_. - -Her romance with Tabor, a Vermont stone-cutter, began in Maine in -August, 1853, when Augusta L. Pierce was twenty years old and Horace -Austin Warner Tabor was twenty-two. He came to work for her father, a -contractor. After a couple of years' employment he fell in love with the -boss's daughter. A two-year engagement followed while Tabor homesteaded -a 160-acre farm in Riley County, Kansas. - -"On January 31, 1857, we were married in the room where we first met," -Augusta recalled. - -Farming in Kansas proved bleak, arduous and lonely for the -twenty-four-year old bride, and unprofitable for her husband. When the -news of gold in Colorado broke, the Tabors joined the rush. On April 5, -1859, they set out in an ox-drawn covered wagon with two men friends and -their sixteen-month-old baby son, Maxcy, who was teething. They also -took along several cows to provide milk. The journey to Denver took them -until June 20. They camped there for two weeks because the cattle were -footsore, and then moved to a site near Golden. - -Here, the men decided to push on to Gregory Diggings, now Central City, -and they went afoot since there was no adequate road for a wagon. - -"Leaving me and my sick child in the 7 by 9 tent, that my hands had -made, the men took a supply of provisions on their backs, a few -blankets, and bidding me be good to myself, left on the morning of the -glorious Fourth. My babe was suffering from fever and I was weak and -worn. My weight was only ninety pounds. How sadly I felt, none but God, -in whom I then firmly trusted, knew. Twelve miles from a human soul save -my babe. The only sound I heard was the lowing of the cattle, and they, -poor things, seemed to feel the loneliness of the situation and kept -unusually quiet. Every morning and evening I had a 'round-up' all to -myself," Augusta wrote. - -After three "long, weary weeks" the men returned. On the 26th of July -they again "loded" the wagon and started into the mountains. Traveling -by way of Russell Gulch, it took them three weeks to reach Payne's Bar, -now Idaho Springs. She remarked: - -"Ours was the first wagon through and I was the first white woman there, -if white I could be called, after camping out three months." - -The men cut logs, laid them up four feet and put the 7 by 9 tent on top -for a roof. Horace went prospecting and Augusta opened a business. She -baked bread and pies, gave meals and sold milk from their cows. - - [Illustration: AUGUSTA SAT WITH A PRESIDENT IN A BOX - - _The Tabor Opera House in Leadville was the home of legitimate drama - and provided many cultural evenings for early-day bonanza barons._] - -Horace found no gold, but Augusta was very successful. She made enough -money to buy their unpaid-for farm in Kansas and to keep them through -the winter in Denver. In February Horace returned to his prospect but -found his claim had been jumped. He decided to go prospecting farther -afield, on the Arkansas, and returned to Denver to make plans. - -They traveled by way of Ute Pass and were a month on the road before -they reached South Park. Now she waxed lyrical. - -"I shall never forget my first vision of the park. The sun was just -setting. I can only describe it by saying it was one of Colorado's -sunsets. Those who have seen them know how glorious they are. Those who -have not cannot imagine how gorgeously beautiful they are. The park -looked like a cultivated field with rivulets coursing through, and herds -of antelope in the distance." - -After two hazardous crossings of the ice-caked and tumultuous Arkansas, -and after several weeks of unsuccessful placering when they could not -separate heavy black particles from the gold, they arrived in California -Gulch. It was May 8, 1860. - -"The first thing after camping was to have the faithful old oxen -butchered that had brought us all the way from Kansas--yes, from the -Missouri River three years before. We divided the meat with the miners -in the gulch, for they were without provisions or ammunition." - -Once again Augusta was the first woman in the camp, and once again the -men built her a primitive log cabin. This one had a sod roof, no window, -and a dirt floor. She promptly went into business and Horace went -prospecting. As the Tabors were the only people in the upper end of the -gulch who owned a gold-scales, Augusta added weighing dust to her duties -of taking boarders and doing laundry. In a few weeks ten thousand men -were crowded in the gulch, and a mail and express office was needed. -Augusta was appointed postmistress of Oro City. - - [Illustration: THE PASSAGE-WAY OVER ST. LOUIS AVENUE - - _The Tabor Opera House was connected with the Clarendon Hotel for the - ease of Tabor and Bush who had private suites in the former._] - -"I was very happy that summer," she added. - -By September 20th Horace had accumulated $5,000 in gold dust from his -claim. He gave $1,000 worth of this dust to Augusta, and she prepared to -leave the mountains to spend the winter with her father and mother. - -"I put my wardrobe, what there was of it, in a carpet bag, and took -passage with a mule train that was going to the Missouri River. I was -five weeks in crossing and cooked for my board." - -(Horace and Maxcy also went to Maine that winter but Augusta did not -mention this.) - -"With that $1,000, I purchased 160 acres of land in Kansas, adjoining -the tract we already owned. My folks dressed me up, and in the spring I -bought a pair of mules and a wagon in St. Joe to return with, which took -about all my money." - -Horace spent the $4,000 that was left of the gold dust for flour in Iowa -on the way back. In the spring they opened a store in Augusta's cabin. -While he mined the claim, Augusta waited on customers and raised her -son. She even transported gold to Denver on horseback for the express -office. In order to fool highway robbers, Tabor carried a small amount -of gold, while large amounts were hidden under her skirts enjoying the -protection of chivalry to ladies! That summer of 1861 the store was more -profitable than mining because the easy placer gold was nearly played -out. - - [Illustration: MARRIED - - _In 1878 Tabor and his first wife were respectable citizens and - suitably wed. He kept a general store in the booming mining town of - Leadville and she, the mayor's wife, had boarders to increase the - family earnings and budget._] - - [Illustration: _In those days the Tabor residence stood on Harrison - Avenue; and can be seen toward the rear of this sketch, occupying the - space between the Clarendon Hotel and some new stores. Augusta's - boarders would have looked exactly like these men. Although most of - her boarders in 1878 were Tabor's clerks, they spent every hour of - their free time searching the hills for silver like everyone else. - This was a typical prospecting outfit._] - - [Illustration: DIVORCED - - _Tabor hardly looks like the sort of Lothario who would have been the - idol of two remarkable women. But such he was. Both wives were - courageous, articulate and full of initiative, besides adoring. The - first liked to work; the second to play. The first was downright; the - second, flattering. The first hated to show off; the second loved the - limelight. The first was economical and the second, extravagant. But - both were unusual women who made history. A detailed treatment of the - second Mrs. Tabor's life will be found in the illustrated booklet, - "Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor." It is a - rags-to-riches and riches-to-rags tale, full of pathos._ - - _The photographs of Horace Tabor and Baby Doe, below, have never been - published before; also the photograph of Baby Doe on the next page. - The following sketch of Augusta, as a young woman with curls, was - printed with a write-up of the scandal in the national Police - Gazette._] - - [Illustration] - - [Illustration: BITTER FOES - - _The first Mrs. Tabor, or the second, would tell her coachman to pass - the other's carriage if they saw each other out driving. Their enmity - never relented the least bit during Augusta's life._] - -The camp fell off rapidly and by autumn was practically deserted. The -Tabors decided to try the other side of the Mosquito Range and the -booming camp of Buckskin Joe. Again they opened a store and again it was -selected as the post office. Horace had no better luck with mining in -South Park than in Oro and so resigned himself to their small business -venture. - -But he still dreamt of bonanzas and hopefully grubstaked penniless -prospectors. The agreement was that in return for supplies, which he -gave them, they would share any rich finds. Augusta viewed the practice -with disfavor. - -When the Printer Boy mine was expanded in 1868 in California Gulch, the -Tabors moved back to Oro City. This time they erected a four-room log -cabin about a mile above the present site of Leadville and settled down -to their usual routine of running a general store. For ten more years, -bringing the total to eighteen, Augusta kept at her labors and Horace -cherished his dreams. - -As the years passed, Augusta's natural New England frankness grew more -tart. She found Horace's easy-going ways irritating. His off-hand -generosities made no sense to a woman who knew the value of a -hard-earned dollar. Or, perhaps, some psychic intuition warned Augusta -that that very same trait would bring her eventual heart-break, and she -was trying subconsciously to ward off the blow. - -The blow came disguised as good fortune. In 1877 the news leaked out -that those heavy particles of black sand, which had been so difficult -for the placer miners to separate from gold, were really bits of -lead-silver carbonates. A second rush to California Gulch began. The -newcomers were silver-seekers and chose the lower part of the gulch in -which to settle. The Tabors decided to move their Oro City store a mile -farther down, and selected a site on the south side of Chestnut Street, -a door below the Harrison Avenue corner. They built a story-and-a-half -log and frame building with sleeping quarters upstairs, and dining and -kitchen arrangements to the rear. - - [Illustration: AUGUSTA'S HOUSE - - _This little clapboard dwelling originally stood on Harrison Avenue, - Leadville, where the Opera House is now. It was moved to its present - place on Fifth Street in 1879. In 1955 it was opened as a small - shop-museum. It now stands alone on the block, but for many years it - was huddled against a clapboard false-front assay office on one side - and small residences on the other._] - -Business boomed. Tabor had to hire two clerks to take care of the post -office alone. Soon he was forced to open a banking department since he -owned an ordinary iron safe which sat outside the counter. Everyone -wanted to deposit their cash in his safe. The cashier divided his time -between the dry goods and grocery divisions, and the receipt of deposits -and writing of exchange. Tabor hired still more clerks and expanded -jovially in the balmy atmosphere of his new importance. - -In January, 1878, the settlement comprised some seventy tents, shanties -and log cabins. The inhabitants decided to call a meeting, effect an -organization and choose a name. "Leadville" was selected, although a few -people thought "Cloud City" was more poetic. A short while afterward -they voted Tabor to the mayorship, and officially confirmed his -year-long office with a city election in April. Tabor was now worth -between $25,000 and $30,000. - -As sleeping and eating facilities were at a premium, the Tabors decided -to build a residence for themselves, where Augusta could serve meals, -and to allow the clerks to sleep above the store. They chose a site at -310 Harrison Avenue, way off from the settlement, and began to build in -the spring. Meanwhile Tabor was handing out grubstakes and still -dreaming. - -Then the momentous day of his Castles-in-Spain arrived. On Sunday, April -21, 1878, two German prospectors, August Rische and George Theodore -Hook, asked him for a stake while Tabor was sorting mail. Postmaster -Tabor told them to pick out what they needed, and the men chose about -$17 worth of supplies, mostly groceries. They drew up an agreement that -Tabor was entitled to a third of what they found. - -A few days later they came back and asked for a second hand-out. They -had staked a claim and they needed shovels, a hand-switch, drills and -blasting powder to sink a shaft. This brought the total outlay to some -$60. - - [Illustration: FAST FRIENDS - - _Although Bush quarreled violently with both Maxcy's father and - mother, no friction ever marred their affection. They were business - partners and friends for twenty years despite sixteen years' - difference in their age and outlook._] - -Early in May, Augusta was coming downstairs one morning when August -Rische burst into the store. As she told the story to Flora Stevens, his -hands were full of specimens. He rushed toward her and shouted: - -"We've struck it! We've struck it!" - -Augusta said she was rather frigid to him. - -"Rische, when you bring me money instead of rocks, then I'll believe -you." - -But it was true. Their mine, the Little Pittsburgh, netted Tabor -$500,000 in the following fifteen months. He bought the Chrysolite which -proved to be another bonanza. Augusta continued to keep boarders during -the summer and Tabor, to supervise the store's activities. But then -Tabor began to splurge, and in the autumn they sold out. The fall -election had made Tabor lieutenant-governor of Colorado, so they planned -to move to Denver. - -In January, 1879, Tabor rented, and the next month purchased, the Henry -C. Brown house at 17th and Broadway, paying $40,000. According to -Augusta, when her husband took her to see it, she was very mindful of -the quick rises and equally rapid descents of Colorado fortunes. Augusta -took one look at her husband's idea of a new home and said: - -"I will never go up these steps, Tabor, if you think I will ever have to -go down them." - -Thirty-five curious callers appeared the first day she was at home. She -remarked sarcastically: - -"I would scarcely know how to return the call of the woman next door who -arrived in a carriage." - -Tabor provided the means for returning the call. It was a $2,000 -carriage, an exact replica of the one driven by the White House coachman -around Washington. - -"La," she told Flora Stevens, "If we had only had the money that is in -that carriage when we began life." - -Delegations from the various churches also came to call, each seeking -the Tabors' membership. Augusta remarked: - - [Illustration: TABOR PROPERTY DOMINATED DENVER IN 1881 - - _The Tabor Grand rose like a cathedral beyond the spired church. At - far right is Augusta's house. The light building behind the present - Navarre Restaurant is the Windsor Hotel. The tall business building in - the middle was the Tabor block. The Brown was a triangular cow - pasture. In front of it was Augusta's coach house that faced - Seventeenth Avenue._] - -"I suppose Mr. Tabor's and my souls are of more value than they were a -year ago." - -Poor Augusta! Time was running out. Tabor's answer to her tartness was -to spend his evenings in the variety halls and bordellos. As his -interests and investments widened, he took the most seductive inmates -traveling with him. The newspapers reported that Tabor had given -clothes, jewelry, furs and furbelows to three or four women (one paper -said five) so that they could appear as "Mrs. Tabor." One that he -singled out was Alice Morgan, an Indian club swinger at the Grand -Central variety hall in Leadville. Next he was charmed by Willie Deville -in Lizzie Allen's parlor house in Chicago, and he brought Willie west -with him. Augusta discovered the affair and the miscreants promised to -part. - -But this was a ruse. Tabor kept on seeing her secretly and took Willie -on a trip to New York. There, she was so indiscreet about their -relations that a woman in the hotel tried to blackmail the Silver King. -Tabor told Willie she talked too much and made her a gift of $5,000 to -soften the blow of saying "good-bye." (Augusta preserved an interview, -with many more details than these, that Willie gave to a St. Louis -reporter a couple of years after the affair. Apparently, Willie was -still talking too much.) - -In September, 1879, Tabor sold out his interest in the Little Pittsburgh -for a cool million dollars. He bought the Matchless for $117,000 (which -later proved the greatest bonanza of all) and over 800 shares of stock -of the First National Bank in Denver. Then he and Augusta went East for -six weeks while he made further investments, notably land in South -Chicago. - - [Illustration: TWENTY ROOMS - - _Henry C. Brown, the builder of the Brown Palace Hotel and donor of - the State Capitol ground, sold this house to Horace Tabor in 1879. - Augusta's first act, when she obtained it as part of her divorce - settlement, was to have the grounds landscaped. Each summer thereafter - she entertained at a lawn party to aid charities of the Unity Church._] - -On November 5 the Tabors returned to Denver and Horace left for -Leadville to see to the completion and opening of the Tabor Opera House. -Augusta remained in Denver. Tabor did not return even for Christmas. His -bachelor suite on the second floor of the Opera House (with its handy -passageway across to Bill Bush's Clarendon Hotel) proved too delightful -for a man whose eyes wandered. - -Augusta and he began to quarrel more violently. During 1880 they -appeared together at balls of the Tabor Hose Co. in Denver and of the -Tabor Light Cavalry in Leadville, and when Tabor entertained -ex-President and Mrs. Grant in the "Cloud City." The two couples sat -together in the left-hand box for the second act of "Ours," and then -left to attend a ball in the general's honor. This was July 23, 1880, a -momentous date for forty-seven-year old Augusta--not because she had met -a president, but because just about that time Horace ceased to be her -husband. - -In the autumn, back in Denver, Horace gave her $100,000, following his -usual practice of making a parting gift. In January, 1881, Tabor left -the Broadway mansion irrevocably and established residence in a suite at -the Windsor Hotel of which he was part-owner. - -What had happened was that, some time during the spring or summer on one -of his frequent trips to Leadville, Tabor had met "Baby" Doe. She was -twenty-five and he was forty-nine. They were introduced by Bill Bush who -had known the Dresden-doll beauty as Mrs. Harvey Doe during her -two-and-a-half year residence in Central City. Bill Bush had been -proprietor of the Teller House and had also known her husband and -in-laws. She had obtained a divorce from Harvey Doe in March, 1880, for -adultery and non-support, and shortly after arrived in Leadville. - -Baby Doe said that it was "love at first sight" on her part. With Tabor, -the feeling grew on him. She became his mistress almost immediately, but -it was not until January, 1881, that he began to think of divorce and -re-marriage. Augusta put her foot down. She refused successive overtures -of a handsome settlement in return for a divorce. - -Augusta knew what was going on. In December, 1880, she bought a third -interest in the Windsor Hotel from Charles L. Hall of Leadville. The -other third was owned by Bill Bush, who also managed the hotel, assisted -by her son, Maxcy. In the next months Augusta used her ownership to -check up regularly on activities at the hotel. When Tabor brought Baby -Doe down from Leadville and installed her at the Windsor, the two women -must have passed in the lobby frequently. - - [Illustration: AUGUSTA'S CORNER WITH TREES--THEN AND NOW - - _When Augusta disposed of her last remaining lot at Seventeenth and - Broadway, her trees were sold and transplanted to Wolhurst, - Littleton._] - -Augusta realized a fine monthly profit from her Windsor investment, and -in April, 1881, she treated herself to a trip abroad for several months. -Both Tabor and Bush wanted to buy out her share. Tabor did not like her -making "such a damned nuisance of herself" going in and out of the -rooms, and Bush wanted to obtain a controlling interest in the hotel. -Augusta kept on saying, "No." No divorce and no hotel sale. - -When Augusta returned from Europe, she found her husband had risen to -new heights. He was being considered for a senatorship and he had -finished building the Tabor Grand Opera House in Denver. The citizens -were tendering a ceremony and watch fob to him on the opening night. - -Augusta wrote him a letter apologizing for what she "had said in the -heat of passion." She also asked to be allowed to come to the opening -night of the Tabor Grand and to go with him to Washington as a senator's -wife. This letter turned up among Baby Doe's papers at her death. No one -knows how, or if, it was answered. But the Tabor box was empty on -September 5, 1881, the gala occasion Augusta wanted to attend. - -In April, 1882, Augusta instituted a suit for payment of $50,000 a year -alimony despite the fact that she was not divorced. She listed Tabor's -holdings and their specific worth, an impressive tabulation, which -brought the total to $9,410,000. The suit caused a lot of scandal, -damaged Tabor politically, but accomplished nothing for Augusta since it -was thrown out of court as illegal. - -Augusta gave in on the hotel-sale petition first. She sold her interest -in the Windsor to Bush for close to $40,000 in May, 1882. Finally, on -January 2, 1883, she gave Tabor a divorce in exchange for property worth -about $300,000. She caused a sensation at the divorce trial by -reiterating: - -"Not willingly, Oh God, not willingly!" - -It was this public statement of hers to the judge which made her feel -that the divorce was not valid. - -Amos Steck, Augusta's lawyer, summed up the whole five years of public -quarreling and scandal when he talked about her to a reporter: - -"Oh, she knows all about his practises with lewd women. I never saw such -a woman. She is crazy about Tabor. She loves him and that settles it." - -For years Augusta hoped that Baby Doe would tire of Horace and, -crestfallen, he would come back to his first wife. She thought that when -the money was gone, the young hussy would flit. She told reporters she -was building up her own fortune and hanging on to her large house in -order that she might take care of Tabor in his old age. - -But Augusta was wrong. She had underestimated her rival. When the Silver -Panic of 1893 reduced the former millionaire to poverty, his pretty -blonde wife stuck like glue. - -Belatedly Augusta realized the true character of Baby Doe. In 1892 the -first Mrs. Tabor sold her house on Broadway and moved across the street -to the newly-opened Brown Palace Hotel. Although Maxcy and Bill Bush -were the managers and lived there also, Augusta did not enjoy hotel -life. Her health was starting to fail and she went to California for the -winter, seeking a milder climate. There in Pasadena, on February 1, -1895, at the age of sixty-two she died, her social position still -secure, if not showy, and her fortune built to a million and a half -dollars. - -She said in her own words when Tabor was at his richest: - -"I feel that in those early years of self-sacrifice, hard labor, and -economy, I laid the foundation for Mr. Tabor's immense wealth. Had I not -stayed with him and worked by his side, he would have been discouraged, -returned to the stone-cutting trade and so lost his big opportunity." - -All Colorado agreed with her at the time--and then the mills of the Gods -ground slowly and exceedingly fine. Tabor's immense wealth evaporated. - -But its going did not bring Horace back to her; he clung to Baby Doe -until the end, four years after Augusta's death. Never once was there -the slightest rumor of any infidelity of his to her after 1881 and none -of Baby Doe to him after their first meeting. It must have been galling -to Augusta. - -Maxcy Tabor inherited the money his mother had husbanded with such -business acumen. He brought her body back from California and she was -buried in Riverside cemetery. With the passage of the years Maxcy was -laid to rest in Fairmount beside his wife; and Horace Tabor, in Mt. -Olivet beside Baby Doe. Augusta lies alone in an old-fashioned cemetery, -as alone as she lived her last fifteen years, terribly alone. - -For many years of her middle life Augusta was called "Leadville's First -Lady." The nickname was spoken in affection and in admiration, and she -was interviewed for the Leadville papers under that heading. Yes, she -was a first lady in many ways, courageous and industrious and civic. The -tragedy of her life lay in the fact that, although she was beloved of -many, she lost the key to the only heart she wanted. - - - - - _Acknowledgments_ - - - (Reprinted from earlier editions for the fifth in 1968) - - For Research Aid: - First, as always, to the patient staff of the Western History - Department of the Denver Public Library--Ina T. Aulls, Alys - Freeze, Opal Harber and Katherine Hawkins--who find the - answers to many puzzlers. Secondly, Agnes Wright Spring, - Colorado historian, always generous; and helpful others at the - State Museum--Dolores Renze, Frances Shea, Dorothy Stewart and - Kenneth Watson. Next, Lorena Jones and Allen Young of _The - Denver Post_ library, unfailingly obliging. My gratitude to - all. - For Photographs and Sketches: - The Western History Department of the Denver Public Library has - supplied the great majority of the illustrations used. The - Colorado Historical Society contributed two photographs; the - Oshkosh Public Museum, one; Mrs. Belle Taylor, two; the Mile - High Center, one; and one gift of Fred Mazzulla was graciously - rehabilitated by Phil Slattery and Bill Brown of _The Denver - Post_. - For Proofreading: - Mrs. J. Alvin Fitzell continues to donate her time and aptitude for - catching typographical errors in each successive booklet. - - - - - _By the Same Author_ - - - Gulch of Gold: Her affection for and pride in Gregory Gulch shows in - every line of this book.... The old photographs and maps are - entrancing.... - Marshall Sprague in the _New York Times_. - - Colorful Colorado: Its Dramatic History: "... a remarkable feat of - condensation ... ought to be a copy in your car's glove locker." - Robert Perkin in the _Rocky Mountain News_. - - Unique Ghost Towns: "This new Bancroft Booklet is the best yet." - Stanton Peckham in _The Denver Post_. - - The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown: "Caroline Bancroft's booklets are brighter, - better-illustrated and cheaper than formal histories of Colorado.... - The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown was a delightful person, and I wish I had - known her." - John J. Lipsey in the _Colorado Springs Free Press_. - - The Brown Palace in Denver: "Miss Bancroft has a sure touch and this - new title adds another wide-selling item to her list." - Don Bloch in _Roundup_. - - Denver's Lively Past: "With zest and frankness the author emphasizes - the dramatic, lusty, bizarre and spicy happenings." - Agnes Wright Spring in _The Denver Post_. - - Historic Central City: "We could do with more such stories of - Colorado's fabled past." - Marian Castle in _The Denver Post_. - - Famous Aspen: "It's all here.... Aspenites should be grateful." - Luke Short in _The Aspen Times_. - - Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor: "Attractive, - sprightly, well-printed book ... which is more informative and - genuinely human than preceding works giving the Tabor story." - Fred A. Rosenstock in _The Brand Book_. - - Tabor's Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville: "Seventh in her series of - Bancroft Booklets retelling segments of Colorado's history. They are - popularly written, color-packed little pamphlets, and it's a pleasure - to commend them to native and tourist alike." - Robert Perkin in the _Rocky Mountain News_. - - Six Racy Madams of Colorado: "This delightful booklet is written both - with good humor and good taste." - _Rocky Mountain News._ - - Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure: "The casual reader ... - will find his own treasure buried in this little booklet." - Claude Powe in _The Central City Tommy-Knawker_. - - - (_See back cover for prices_) - - - GULCH OF GOLD - -A fictionized history, reading like a novel but of the soundest -research, picturing the stories of colorful characters who started the -state, with over 100 photos and maps. Hard cover book. $6.25 - - - COLORFUL COLORADO: ITS DRAMATIC HISTORY - -The whole magnificent sweep of the state's history in a sprightly -condensation, with 111 photos (31 in color). Paper, $2.00. - - - UNIQUE GHOST TOWNS AND MOUNTAIN SPOTS - -Forty-two of Colorado's romance-packed high-country towns have their -stories, told with old and new photos, history and maps. $2.00. - - - THE UNSINKABLE MRS. BROWN - -The rollicking story of an ignorant Leadville waitress who reached the -top of Newport society as a _Titanic_ heroine. Illustrated. $1.25. - - - SILVER QUEEN: THE FABULOUS STORY OF BABY DOE TABOR - -Her love affair caused a sensational triangle and a national scandal in -the 'Eighties. Illustrated. $1.50. - - - TABOR'S MATCHLESS MINE AND LUSTY LEADVILLE - -Colorado's most publicized mine was just one facet of the extraordinary -history of the lusty camp where it operated. Illustrated. 75c. - - - FAMOUS ASPEN - -Today the silver-studded slopes of an early day bonanza town have turned -into a scenic summer and ski resort. Illustrated. $1.50. - - - HISTORIC CENTRAL CITY - -Colorado's first big gold camp lived to become a Summer Opera and Play -Festival town. Illustrated. 85c. - - - DENVER'S LIVELY PAST - -A wild frontier town, built on a jumped claim and promoting a red-light -district, became a popular tourist spot. Illustrated. $1.00. - - - THE BROWN PALACE IN DENVER - -No hotel had more turn-of-the-century glamor, nor has seen such plush -love-affairs, murders and bizarre doings. Illustrated. 75c. - - - COLORADO'S LOST GOLD MINES AND BURIED TREASURE - -Thirty fabulous tales, which will inspire the reader to go searching -with a spade, enliven the state's past. Illustrated. $1.25. - - - SIX RACY MADAMS OF COLORADO - -Biographies of six "ladies of pleasure" (whose parlor houses were -scarlet ornaments to the state) make amusing reading. 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