Colorado

Hal Benson, a CU graduate, reflects on his childhood in Leadville, Colorado on a homestead and in town. Recalls watching the silver and ore smelters at a mine in Leadville and his connection with Baby Doe Tabor. Benson discusses the railroad industry in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, including railroad accidents. Discusses the influx of Chinese immigrants working for the Public Service Company building power lines in the mountains.

Peg Mudgett reminisces on growing up in Leadville, Colorado near the mines there until moving to Durango to attend college at Fort Lewis College. Reflects on life in a mining camp owned by the town smelters, learning Spanish from Mexican workers, cutting down and decorating Christmas trees, her days in school, and riding in sleighs. Describes her encounter with Baby Doe Tabor in a grocery store.

Rose Lucas reflects on her childhood and her first memories of Colorado. Discussing her mother, who was a governess for the children of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor and her father, who opened the first Jewish bakery in Denver in the early 1900s. Lucas remembers horse-drawn wagons, making deliveries for the bakery, and working for the Golden Eagle. Recalls the City Hall Fire in 1898, the flood of 1905, and the robbery of the Denver Mint in 1920.