Lizzie walking the streets of Denver, early 1930s. Although she lived in poverty and dressed in rags, she had held onto a few valuables which she stowed in trunks kept in Denver. She had to pay monthly rental fees on this storage, which she came up with even when she had little to eat.
Lizzie's cabin at the time of her death, 1935. The cabin was ransacked and torn apart down to the floorboards by people looking for the fortune they assumed she was protecting there. They found nothing. The Matchless Mine was the only thing Lizzie was protecting up on that hill. All of her papers and valuables were safely stowed away in trunks in Denver.
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