F15P he made a fortune of nearly $9 million from Colorado's Matchless Mine and other mining enterprises.  Eventually becoming lieutenant governor of Colorado, he lost his fort
F15P he made a fortune of nearly $9 million from Colorado's Matchless Mine and other mining enterprises.  Eventually becoming lieutenant governor of Colorado, he lost his fortune in the panic of 1839, and he became a  Denver postmaster. His widow, Elizabeth, continued to live alone in a shack near Matchless Mine and is the  subject of Douglas Moore's opera The Ballad of Baby Doe.
F15P he made a fortune of nearly $9 million from Colorado's Matchless Mine and other mining enterprises.  
Horace Austin Warner Tabor