Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 52398-h.htm or 52398-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52398/52398-h/52398-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52398/52398-h.zip) Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). SILVER QUEEN The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor Copyright 1950, 1955 by Caroline Bancroft All rights in this book are reserved. It may not be used for dramatic, radio, television, motion or talking picture purposes without written authorization. Johnson Publishing Co., Boulder, Colorado [Illustration: _The Denver Post_] The Author Caroline Bancroft is a third generation Coloradan who began her literary career by joining the staff of _The Denver Post_ in 1928. For five years she edited a book page and wrote historical features for the Sunday edition. On a travel assignment for the _New York Evening Post_, she interviewed a long list of celebrated authors in New York, London, Paris, Holland and India. Her articles have appeared in many nationally known magazines. Her long-standing interest in western history was inherited. Her pioneer grandfather, Dr. F. J. Bancroft (after whom the three-crested, Continental Divide peak just south of James is named) was a founder of the Colorado Historical Society and its first president for seventeen years. Her father, George J. Bancroft, a mining engineer, wrote many mining and reclamation contributions to the growing body of Colorado lore. Caroline Bancroft has carried on the family tradition. A Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, she later obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Denver, writing her thesis on Central City, Colorado. She has taught Colorado history at Randell School in Denver and is the author of the intensely interesting series of Bancroft Booklets about Colorado, including _Historic Central City_, _Denver’s Lively Past_, _Augusta Tabor_, _Tabor’s Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville_, _Famous Aspen_, _Glenwood’s Early Glamour_, _The Brown Palace_, _The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown_ and the extremely popular _Colorful Colorado_. Edwin C. Johnson, Governor of Colorado 1931-37, 1955-57 SILVER QUEEN The fabulous story of Baby Doe Tabor by CAROLINE BANCROFT Johnson Publishing Company Boulder, Colorado 1962 _My Interest in Baby Doe_