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  • Baby Doe Tabor
    Joyce B Lohse
    Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Wisconsin. She moved west, married a man named Harvey Doe, and came to be called 'Baby' by the miners in Central City, Colorado.After attracting the attention of wealthy Horace Tabor of Leadville, she began a very public affair with Tabor ending with marriage in a private ceremony in 1882. A lavish lifestyle ended after fifteen year...
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    10,47 €

  • General William Palmer
    Joyce B Lohse
    William Palmer’s railroad career was interrupted by the Civil War in which he was taken prisoner, rose to the rank of brigadier general at the age of 29, and received the Medal of Honor.After the war, Palmer moved west, helping to build the Kansas Pacific Railroad and later founding the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.Palmer was the founder of the new city of Colorado Springs, i...
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    9,16 €

  • Unsinkable
    Joyce B Lohse
    Margaret ’Molly’ Brown’s life was the stuff of legends. The heroine of the Titanic disaster was also a business woman, art collector, social and political activist, and philanthropist during her full life. As she said of others, she had 'a heart as big as a ham.'Molly Brown was heroine of the Titanic disaster, but when asked about the experience, she said, 'Please don’t say I’m...
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    12,96 €

  • Justina Ford
    Joyce B Lohse
    Justina Ford was the first African American female physician to practice medicine in Colorado. Facing and overcoming the obstacles of race and gender bias, she spent half of a century, between 1902 and 1952, caring for people of all races, backgrounds, and circumstances.True to her humanitarian spirit, Dr. Ford consistently put the needs of others before her own as she went abo...
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    7,52 €