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Colorado Gold Mining (Leadville Colorado)
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Crafterbug1
Want to know more about the hay-day of Colorado? Here it is. Find out how much you know and I'll give you hints on some famous and infamous characters.
Question 1:
Leadvile, Colorado was biggest in what ore besides gold?
Pyrite
Copper
Zinc
Silver
Question 2:
In 1880 Baby Doe met Mr. Tabor and they began a courtship Colorado wouldn't soon forget. What was so noteworthy about their courtship?
Mr Tabor had secretly divorced Augusta, but it wasn't legal, and he married Baby Doe anyway on Sept. 30 1882
All of these
Baby Doe was a divorcee.
Mr. Tabor was already married when he took up with Baby Doe.
Question 3:
Known simply as Baby Doe Tabor, what was her huband's first name?
Albert Tabor
Buckskin Tabor
Horace Tabor
John T Tabor
Question 4:
Since Baby Doe & Horace Tabors marriage wasn't completely legal, Augusta fought it any way she could. She asked for separate maintenance. claiming her husband was worth 9 Million . How long did it take for the divorce to become fully legal?
9 months
3 years
7 years
4 months
Question 5:
Horace Tabor was in the US Senate, but was he ever elected?
No
Yes
Question 6:
Horace Tabor contributed greatly to Denver, and Leadville, Colorado with Opera Houses, business buildings etc. but he is known best as the owner of which silver mine in Leadville?
Matchless Mine
Broken Women Mine
Baby Doe Mine
Matchbook Mine
Question 7:
Baby Doe Tabor, who outlived her husband by many years, died where?
At the Tabor Opera House in Denver, Colorado March 14, 1935
St Vincent Hospital Leadville, Colorado March 2, 1933
In a nursing home in Telleride Colorado March 26, 1940
In a shack next to the Matchless mine frozen to death March 6, 1935
Question 8:
Back in the days of large families in Denver, did Baby Doe and Horace have any children?
No
Yes
Question 9:
Baby Doe was so famous, she was immortalized in what form?
A Popular Song
A Broadway Play
Best Selling novel by Her Daughters
None of the above
Question 10:
Colorado miner Horace was known as the Silver King, Baby Doe as the Silver Queen. In the 1880's they were one of the richest millionaires in the country. What was Baby Doe wearing when she was found dead.
One blanket and gunny sacks wrapped with twine on her feet.
With all her worldy possesions around her. Draped in fine old Clothes.
None of the above
Reading a classic book in a fur coat.
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