Baby Doe Tabor
Our record this week is a mineral survey plat approved Sept. 13, 1879, featuring the Matchless Mine in Leadville, Colorado. A dilapidated cabin on the Matchless Mine once owned by her silver magnate husband, Horace Tabor, was the final home of the famous Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor, whose up-and-down life's story became the subject of an opera and later a Hollywood movie. Read more on ArcGIS Story Maps.
The GLO website provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.
The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is one of the most visited websites in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.
Mineral Survey Plat portraying the Matchless Lode
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