The Tabors reportedly had one hundred peacocks on the front lawn of their mansion in Denver. For a few years they lived as if the money would never run out. But when the US went to the gold standard, Horace lost everything and the family had to move into a small cottage. Horace was lucky to get a job as the postmaster, a position he'd held when he first traveled west. Seven years later, 1899, he died from appendicitis and Lizzie and her girls moved back to Leadville to watch over the Matchless Mine.
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