The silver queen who never left her mine
Horace Tabor made a silver fortune at Leadville, left his wife for Baby Doe, and lost everything when silver crashed in 1893. His last words were said to be a instruction to hang on to the Matchless. She did, living in a shack at the mine for thirty-five years until she froze to death there in 1935. The headframe still stands above Leadville at over ten thousand feet, and it is open to visitors.
Other places on the map within a couple of hours of here.
