Jane Bardal

Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"e;You get off this property."e; - Capt. Ellen Jack, 1887 Ellen E. Jack backed up her orders with a shotgun as she stood at the entrance to her Black Queen Mine. To profit from the mine, located near Aspen, Colorado, she engaged in many other battles with lawyers and capitalists who tried to wrest her ore away. Mrs. Captain Jack contributed to the myth of the West by crowning herself as the "e;Mining Queen of the Rockies"e; as she entertained tourists at her roadhouse near Colorado Springs. Author Jane Bardal offers a captivating biography of a pioneering woman who fashioned a legacy through true tenacity and maybe even a few tall tales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439677803
• Artikelnr.: 68994988

Autorenporträt

Jane Bardal's previous publications include "Southwestern New Mexico Mining Towns" and "Oral Histories from the Grants Uranium District," in the Mining History Journal. She teaches psychology at Central New Mexico Community College.