Quotes
"The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg."
-- Margaret Thatcher
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
― Barbra Streisand
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
― Stanley Baldwin
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
― Charles Dickens
“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
― Rita Mae Brown,
Women's History Month
In Horace Tabor's romance with Baby Doe, Augusta Tabor was the odd person out.
Young Tabor went to work for stonecutter, William Pierce, and met Pierce's daughter Augusta. After two years of courting, they were married in 1857. A month later they moved to Kansas to try farming. Augusta gave birth to Nathaniel Maxcy Tabor. In spite of their success in farming, the lure of Pikes Peak gold was too great and the Tabors moved to the Colorado Springs area.
Rumors of gold strikes, and cold weather, caused them to move to Golden, Denver, and Idaho Springs. In Idaho Springs Augusta established a bakery selling pies and bread, She took in laundry and cared for sick miners, while Tabor prospected for gold. They moved around Colorado until they settled in Ora City in the Leadville area. Augusta operated the store and post office. Horace sold mining equipment and grubstaked prospectors for a share of whatever they found.
Two prospectors visited the Tabors’ store in April 1878. Horace grubstaked them, and the prospectors discovered a rich silver lode that became the Little Pittsburgh Mine. Soon the mine was producing around $10,000 per day. Later Horace sold his one-third share of the Little Pittsburgh and used the proceeds to buy the Chrysolite and Matchless Mines, which made the Tabors millions of dollars.
In January 1879 the couple bought a mansion in Denver, but soon they spent more time apart than together. Horace had moved out of the Denver mansion, where Augusta continued to live, and was spending his time at the Windsor Hotel, where he carried on an affair with a beautiful young divorcée named Elizabeth McCourt Doe, also known as “Baby Doe.” That is another story.
Augusta charged Horace with desertion, and the case dragged on throughout the year. Finally, toward the end of 1882, Horace pressed Augusta for a divorce, which was finalized in January 1883. Even though Augusta had played a huge role in earning the Tabors’ fortune, she received only a small portion of it. She got two properties valued at $250,000 out of an estate worth several million dollars.
After the divorce, Augusta lived a quiet life but she did not withdraw from society. Instead, she became deeply involved in business and philanthropy. Shrewd investments in Colorado and New Mexico properties restored her former wealth.
Augusta developed a cough. Hoping that warmer weather would improve her health over the winter months, Augusta traveled to Pasadena, California. Unfortunately, the cough worsened as a case of bronchitis developed into pneumonia. Augusta died on January 30, 1895, at the age of sixty-two.
"The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg."
-- Margaret Thatcher
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
― Barbra Streisand
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
― Stanley Baldwin
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
― Charles Dickens
“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
― Rita Mae Brown,
Women's History Month
In Horace Tabor's romance with Baby Doe, Augusta Tabor was the odd person out.
Young Tabor went to work for stonecutter, William Pierce, and met Pierce's daughter Augusta. After two years of courting, they were married in 1857. A month later they moved to Kansas to try farming. Augusta gave birth to Nathaniel Maxcy Tabor. In spite of their success in farming, the lure of Pikes Peak gold was too great and the Tabors moved to the Colorado Springs area.
Rumors of gold strikes, and cold weather, caused them to move to Golden, Denver, and Idaho Springs. In Idaho Springs Augusta established a bakery selling pies and bread, She took in laundry and cared for sick miners, while Tabor prospected for gold. They moved around Colorado until they settled in Ora City in the Leadville area. Augusta operated the store and post office. Horace sold mining equipment and grubstaked prospectors for a share of whatever they found.
Two prospectors visited the Tabors’ store in April 1878. Horace grubstaked them, and the prospectors discovered a rich silver lode that became the Little Pittsburgh Mine. Soon the mine was producing around $10,000 per day. Later Horace sold his one-third share of the Little Pittsburgh and used the proceeds to buy the Chrysolite and Matchless Mines, which made the Tabors millions of dollars.
In January 1879 the couple bought a mansion in Denver, but soon they spent more time apart than together. Horace had moved out of the Denver mansion, where Augusta continued to live, and was spending his time at the Windsor Hotel, where he carried on an affair with a beautiful young divorcée named Elizabeth McCourt Doe, also known as “Baby Doe.” That is another story.
Augusta charged Horace with desertion, and the case dragged on throughout the year. Finally, toward the end of 1882, Horace pressed Augusta for a divorce, which was finalized in January 1883. Even though Augusta had played a huge role in earning the Tabors’ fortune, she received only a small portion of it. She got two properties valued at $250,000 out of an estate worth several million dollars.
After the divorce, Augusta lived a quiet life but she did not withdraw from society. Instead, she became deeply involved in business and philanthropy. Shrewd investments in Colorado and New Mexico properties restored her former wealth.
Augusta developed a cough. Hoping that warmer weather would improve her health over the winter months, Augusta traveled to Pasadena, California. Unfortunately, the cough worsened as a case of bronchitis developed into pneumonia. Augusta died on January 30, 1895, at the age of sixty-two.
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