Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Silver Queen, by Caroline Bancroft
Copyright 1950, 1955 by Caroline Bancroft 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
The Denver Post
Caroline Bancroft is a third generation Coloradan who began her literary career by joining the staff of The Denver Post in 1928. For five years she edited a book page and wrote historical features for the Sunday edition. On a travel assignment for the New York Evening Post , she interviewed a long list of celebrated authors in New York, London, Paris, Holland and India. Her articles have appeared in many nationally known magazines.
Her long-standing interest in western history was inherited. Her pioneer grandfather, Dr. F. J. Bancroft (after whom the three-crested, Continental Divide peak just south of James is named) was a founder of the Colorado Historical Society and its first president for seventeen years. Her father, George J. Bancroft, a mining engineer, wrote many mining and reclamation contributions to the growing body of Colorado lore.
Caroline Bancroft has carried on the family tradition. 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. She has taught Colorado history at Randell School in Denver and is the author of the intensely interesting series of Bancroft Booklets about Colorado, including Historic Central City , Denver’s Lively Past , Augusta Tabor , Tabor’s Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville , Famous Aspen , Glenwood’s Early Glamour , The Brown Palace , The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown and the extremely popular Colorful Colorado .
Edwin C. Johnson, Governor of Colorado 1931-37, 1955-57
by CAROLINE BANCROFT
Johnson Publishing Company Boulder, Colorado 1962
The formerly beautiful and glamorous Baby Doe Tabor, her millions lost many years before, was found dead on her cabin floor at the Matchless Mine in Leadville, Colorado, on March 7, 1935. Her body, only partially clothed, was frozen with ten days’ stiffness into the shape of a cross. She had lain down on her back on the floor of her stove-heated one room home, her arms outstretched, apparently in sure foreboding that she was to die.