Description
"You get off this property." - Capt. Ellen Jack, 1887
Ellen E. Jack backed up her orders with a shotgun as she stood at the entrance to her Black Queen Mine. To profit from the mine, located near Aspen, Colorado, she engaged in many other battles with lawyers and capitalists who tried to wrest her ore away. Mrs. Captain Jack contributed to the myth of the West by crowning herself as the "Mining Queen of the Rockies" as she entertained tourists at her roadhouse near Colorado Springs. Author Jane Bardal offers a captivating biography of a pioneering woman who fashioned a legacy through true tenacity and maybe even a few tall tales.
Author: Jane Bardal
Publisher: History Press
Published: 05/15/2023
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781467153638
ISBN10: 146715363X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Technology & Engineering | Mining
Ellen E. Jack backed up her orders with a shotgun as she stood at the entrance to her Black Queen Mine. To profit from the mine, located near Aspen, Colorado, she engaged in many other battles with lawyers and capitalists who tried to wrest her ore away. Mrs. Captain Jack contributed to the myth of the West by crowning herself as the "Mining Queen of the Rockies" as she entertained tourists at her roadhouse near Colorado Springs. Author Jane Bardal offers a captivating biography of a pioneering woman who fashioned a legacy through true tenacity and maybe even a few tall tales.
Author: Jane Bardal
Publisher: History Press
Published: 05/15/2023
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781467153638
ISBN10: 146715363X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Technology & Engineering | Mining