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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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erate struggle, ruling railroad systems, laying ocean cables, plan-ning for isthmus canals, aiding in a thousand enterprises that requireenergy, capital, knowledge of men, and prestige of former success, yetfaithful in heart, cosmopolites though they are, to the memories oftheir young manhood, the companions of their Argonautic quest, the* pards of their pick-and-shovel days in Sierra or Rocky. Upon factslike these rest the social results of the mining-camp training. True, corruption abounds in mining camps; and so it does out-side. Vice and crime revel in some mining communities ; so they doin a multitude of towns and cities throughout the land. Leadville,San Francisco, and even Virginia City, cannot compete with NewYork, Cincinnati, and Chicago, in the martyrdom of virtue. Neitherignorance nor immorality offer up such holocausts of human happi-ness in the New West as appall the East and South. With all theirvices, the character of mining camps averages better than their repu-tation.
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MINING KINGS. k 524 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST, MINING KINGS.HORACE A. W. TABOR. The life of H. A. W. Tabor is an illustration of the adage, Prov-idence helps those who help themselves, as well as of the followingpassage from Shakespeare : — There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. He was born in Orleans County, Vermont, Nov. 26, 1830. In1855 he emigrated to Kansas and engaged in farming. As an activemember of the Free Soil party, he participated in the decisive sceneswhich marked the period during the dark days of border ruffianism.He was a member of the Topeka legislature in 1857, which was dis-persed by Colonel Sumner at the point of the bayonet, by order ofPresident Pierce. In 1859 ^e came to Colorado and went at once toClear Creek County, spending the following winter in Denver. Helocated the next spring in California Gulch, where he was exclusivelyengaged in mining up to 1865. He then began merchandising, andfollowed it in connection wi

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