Friday, September 26, 2008


Lizzie and Silver's cabin in Leadville today. Souvenir hunters tore the cabin apart after Lizzie's death looking for the fortune they believed she was hiding. They found nothing. The cabin had to be reconstructed to become the tourist destination it now is. For a small fee you can take the tour, listen to a guide tell the tale of the Tabors and look into what is left of the still flooded Matchless Mine up on a hill above Leadville. By car, it takes less than five minutes to drive up the hill and park. The cabin is, at most, fifty feet from the parking lot. While Lizzie was alive, she traveled on foot and when snow was on the ground it took her a long time to get down to the city, longer to get back home, sometimes falling to her knees in the snow and crawling back. It was here her body was found, frozen to death, the winter of 1935, ten years after Silver's horrible death by scalding, first reported as a suicide, later determined to have been a murder.

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