Colorado Postcards

Colorado Postcards

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Buckskin Joe, Canon City - Buckskin Joe is an authentic western town. Many antiques and buildings on display are over 100 years old. Buckskin Joe is the western motion picture capital of Colorado with over 20 major western moves made here. Enjoy gunfights, variety shows, horseback riding, stagecoach rides, and mine tours. Postcard is new, unused and in mint condition.

Central City, Colorado: Text on back: Historic Central City, Colorado, once home to miners in search of gold, is now a place to shop, gamble, see a good opera or merely step back in time and relish the past. Postcard is new, unused and in excellent condition.

Balanced and Steamboat Rocks at Garden of the Gods, Colorado - The Steamboat Rock in connection with the balanced Rock is one of the famous features of the Garden of the Gods that has been visited for tens of years. Postcard is used, postmarked 1942 from Loveland, Colorado, with intact one cent stamp. Postcard is in very good condition.

Leadville, Colorado: Text on back. Leadville, Colorado, Photo by Mark & Jennifer Miller. Postcard is new, unused and in excellent condition.

Cave of the Winds - 1924 postcard is in very good condition with one cent postmarked stamp and message.

Legendary Baby Doe Tabor - Text on front: Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt Doe was a 25-year-old blue-eyed blonde, just weeks out of her three-year marriage to Central City miner Harvey Doe, when she walked into the life of Colorado's most famous silver baron, Horace Austin Warner Tabor - 24 years her senior. The courtship, Tabor's divorce from his wife Augusta and subsequent marriage to Baby Doe, scandalized America from the boom town of Leadville to Washington D.C. Society in Colorado and Washington turned its back on her, but she continued to help her husband spend his millions in extravagant living. The Silver Panic of 1893 wiped out Tabor fortunes, but Baby Doe - to the amazement of those who earlier called her a gold digger - stood by her husband, selling her lavish possessions to pay his debts. He died April 10, 1899. After that, she lived in abject poverty at the Matchless mine in Leadville, until her death on or about March 6, 1935. True to a legendary promise to her beloved husband, she clung to the mine at all costs. Text on back: Baby Doe - considered one of the most beautiful women of the late 1800s - set her sights on Horace Tabor, one of the richest men in the west. She scored a bulls-eye and their love story became legend. Postcard is new, unused and in mint condition.

Fort Garland - Text on back: Fort Garland, Colorado. U.S. Army Post, 1858-1883. Restored and maintained by the State Historical Society of Colorado. Vintage scalloped postcard is unused and in very good condition.

Kendall Community House Near Trinidad, Colorado - Kendall Community House and Miramonte Dining Room. Monument Lake Park near Trinidad, Colorado. Old linen postcard is unused with once cent placeholder for stamp, and in in very good condition.

Creede, Colorado Mining Operations: Postcard has never been used and is in excellent condition.

Creede, Colorado Street Scene: Colorful Pioneer Mining Town. Postcard has never been used and is in excellent condition.

Cripple Creek Museum: The Cripple Creek District Museum in the 1940's? Postcard has never been used and is in excellent condition.

Cripple Creek Narrow Gauge Railroad: This old postcard has never been used and is in excellent condition.

Creede, Colorado Town View: Still active mining town. Center of one of the most popular resort areas of Colorado. Post card has never been used and is in excellent condition.

Estes Park Narrows: 1924 Postcard. The Narrows, Big Thompson Canon, Estes Park. This postcard is unused with writing on the back. Placeholder for one cent stamp.

Maroon Bells: This old black and white postcard has never been used and is in very good condition.

A Little Pin Money - Text on front: Bolstered by desire to own something of his own for "a little pin money, a new hat or a bottle of champagne," Horace A.W. Tabor abandoned usual partnerships and in 1878 paid $150,000 for the unproven Matchless mine on Fryer Hill. It wasn't Colorado's richest mine, but it was the most publicized. For years, the Matchless poured out about $80,000 per month with occasional peaks to $100,000. Total output is estimated at $7 million and silver remains in its shafts and tunnels. The Matchless paid for Tabor's scandalous courtship of beautiful Baby Doe. It paid for their wedding and honeymoon and for Tabor's short-lived senatorial appointment to Washington, D.C. When silver prices fell in 1893, Tabor was penniless. Legend maintains that on his deathbed, he told his faithful wife, "hang onto the Matchless. It will make millions again." Contradicting those who said blonde Baby Doe was a gold digger, she sold her jewels and watched over the mine for 36 years, struggling and starving. Her vigil ended when her frozen body was found in the cabin in 1935. Text on back: The Matchless, H.A.W. Tabor's second mine, poured silver from the mouths of its seven shafts at the rate of $80,000 to $100,000 per month for years. He bought the Matchless with money from his fabulous Little Pittsburgh, found on a $64 grubstake.Postcard is new, unused and in mint condition.

Sunset Court - Text on front: Sunset Court. U.S. Highway 50, Fowler, Colorado. Home of pure spring water. Text on back: Sunset Court. On the Santa Fe Trail. Modern - Insulated - Air Conditioned. Some kitchenettes. At home away from home. Phone 161. Vintage linen postcard is unused and excellent condition.

Sheldon Jackson Memorial Chapel - Fairplay, Colorado. Text on back: South Park Community (Presbyterian) Church. On August 11, 1872, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, Eminent Pioneer Missionary, organized the Presbyterian Church in Fairplay, with 8 members. Two years later he built this chapel. Vintage scalloped postcard is unused and in very good condition.

Colorado Map - No text on back. Postcard is new, unused and in mint condition.