CSPAN3 Politics And Public Policy Today September 5, 2016
The boom time. The sherman silver purchase act was passed, and that ensured that the federal government would purchase a large quantity of silver at the tabor familya multifacetted story. Horace Austin Warner tabor was born in vermont and married his first wife, named augusta, also from new england. They married and tried their hand for a brief period in the late 1850s in farming in kansas and came out to colorado during the gold rush in 1859. They eventually settled in the leadville area where they ran a store. One of the things that horace did was what is called grub stake, some of the minin...