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About The Tabors
Allard, Wayne Sen. Colorado’s U.S. Senators: A Biographical Guide 1876-2004. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2007.
Allegretto, Michael Blood Stone: A Jacob Lomax Mystery. (fiction), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
Arps, Louisa Ward Denver in Slices. Denver: Sage Books, 1959.
Auer, Louise “Colorado Remembers Baby Doe” Western Frontier, May 1980, Rockville Centre, New York: G.C. London Publishing Corp.
Ayer, Eleanor H. Colorado Traveler: Hall of Fame, A Gallery of The Rich and Famous. Frederick, Colorado, Renaissance House, 1987.
Backus, Harriet Fish Tomboy Bride. Boulder, Pruett Publishing, 1969.
Balinkin, Ausma The Central WOMEN Figures in Carl Zuckmayer's Dramas. Bern: Peter Lang Ltd., 1978.
Beach, Tracy Frozen to the Cabin Floor: The Biography of Baby Doe Tabor 1854-1935, Parker Colorado: Outskirts Press, 2019.
Bamford, Lawrence von & Tremblay, Kenneth R., Jr. Leadville Architecture, A Legacy of Silver: 1860-1899. Estes Park, Colorado: Architecture Research Press, 1996.
Bancroft, Caroline Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1955.
-------------------------- Denver's Lively Past. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1964.
--------------------------"Did Augusta Tabor call on Baby Doe?" Colorado Magazine, Colorado Springs, June 1955.
-------------------------- Gulch of Gold: A History of Central City, Colorado. Denver: Sage Books, 1958.
-------------------------- Historic Central City. Boulder: Colorado, Johnson Books, 1964.
-------------------------- Photo Story of the Matchless Mine and Baby Doe Tabor. Denver: The Golden Press, 1953.
-------------------------- Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1955.
-------------------------- Tabor's Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1960.
Barrett, Daniel and Beth R. High Drama: Colorado's Historic Theatres. Montrose, Colorado: Western Reflections Publishing Company, 2005.
Blair, Edward Leadville: Colorado's Magic City, Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company, 1980.
-------------------------- & Cattrell, Edward Tabor Family Album. Leadville: Timberline Books, 1974.
Bretz, James Mansions of Denver: The Vintage Years 1870-1038. Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company, 2005.
--------------- “Tabor Grand Opera House” [online article] cinematreasures.org, 2007.
Brooks, Marvin Researching the Baby Doe Tabor Legend. IngramSpark, 2015.
Brotemarkle, Diane The Inner Life of Baby Doe Tabor. Self-published, 2013.
Brown, Robert L. Central City and Gilpin County: Then and Now. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1994.
Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith The Willard Hotel [online article] Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, www.whitehousehistory.org, 2012.
Buchanan, John W. and Doris G. A Story of the Fabulous Windsor Hotel, Denver, Colorado: The A.B. Hirschfeld Press, 1944, 1956.
Burke, John The Legend of Baby Doe: The Colorful Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.
Buys, Christian Historic Leadville: Rare Photographs & Drawings. Ouray, Colorado: Western Reflections Inc., 1997.
Coleman, Jane Candia Matchless: A Western Story. Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2003.
--------------------------- The Silver Queen. New York: A Leisure Book, 2009. [A well-researched bio-novel.]
Convery, III, William J. Pride of the Rockies: The Life of Colorado's Premiere Irish Patron, John Kernan Mullen. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2000.
Coquoz, Rene L. The Leadville Story: Brief Story 1860-1960. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1986.
------------------------ The Saga of H.A.W.Tabor. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1973.
Curti, Merle "Land der begrenzten Moglichkeiten" (Menze, Ernest A. transl.) Geschichte Amerikas, Bd. 2, Europ. Verlagsanstalt o.J., 1975.
Dallas, Sandra Cherry Creek Gothic. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
--------------------- No More Than Five In a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.
Dorset, Phyllis Flanders The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes: The New Eldorado. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1994.
Drago, Harry Sinclair Notorious Ladies of the Frontier. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969.
Enss, Chris A Beautiful Mine, Guilford, Connecticut, Helena, Montana: The Globe Pequot Press, 2008.
Furman, Evelyn E. Livingston My Search For Augusta Pierce Tabor: Leadville's First Lady. Denver: Quality Press, 1993.
---------------------- Silver Dollar Tabor: The Leaf in the Storm. Englewood, Colorado: Quality Press, 1982.
---------------------- The Tabor Opera House. Leadville, 1972.
Gandy, Lewis Cass The Tabors: A Footnote of Western History. New York: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc., 1934.
Gilfallan, George and Ruth Among the Tailings, A Guide a Leadville Mines. Leadville: The Herald Democrat, 1964.
Girswold, Don L. & Jean Harvey History of Leadville and Lake County, Colorado, from Mountain Solitude to Metropolis (2 Vols.). Boulder: Johnson Printing Company for the Colorado Historical Society, 1996.
Goffin, Robert Le Roi du Colorado. Paris: Editions de Paris. 1958.
Goodstein, Phil The Seamy Side of Denver. Denver: New Social Publications, 1993.
Hall, Gordon Langley The Two Lives of Baby Doe. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1962.
Hardee, Lewis J., Jr. "The Perils of Baby Doe," Columbia Library Columns, New York: Friends of the Columbia Libraries, November 1973, Vol. XXIII, Issue #1.
Hardin, J.D. Colorado Silver Queen, New York: Berkeley Books, 1985.
Hunt, Corinne The Brown Palace Story: Centennial Edition--100 Years of Memories. Rocky Mountain Writers Guild, 1992.
Iversen, Kristen Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth. Boulder: Johnson Books, 2010.
Jack, Lowell A History of Manhattan, Kansas: Riley County and Ft. Riley. Manhattan, Kansas: Hawley Printing, 2003.
Kanzeg, David G. The Ballad of Baby Doe and the American Spirit. Cleveland: January 2003.
----------------------- "A Silver Lining and Its Cloud," The Washington Post, January 12th, 1997.
Karsner, David Silver Dollar: The Story of the Tabors. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970. (reprint Covici Friede, Inc., 1932)
Keller, Teddy & Zamonski, Stanley W. The Fifty-Niners: A Denver Diary. Denver: Sage Books, 1961.
Keneally, Thomas The Place Where Souls Are Born: A Journey to the Southwest. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Kihss, Peter F. "Wait for Silver, Advised Tabor, And Widow Did--Unto Death," The Washington Post, March 8, 1935.
Krocesky, Dora & Skala, Helen Leadville's Tales From the Old Timers. Gunnison, Colorado: B & B Printers, 1972.
LaTouche, John & Moore, Douglas The Ballad of Baby Doe: Opera in Two Acts. New York: Chappell & Company, Inc., 1956.
Lohse, Joyce B. Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen Palmer Lake, Colorado: Filter Press, 2011.
McMechen, Edgar C. The Tabor Story. Denver: The State Historical Society of Colorado, 1959.
Macherle, Ann S. A calendar of the papers of Horace Austin Warner Tabor, 1830-1899, a holding of the Library of the State Historical Society of Colorado. Denver: The Western Business History Research Center, 1969.
Masterton, Graham Silver, London: A Star Book, division of W.H.Allen & Co., Plc. 1987.
Miles, Henry Orpheus in the Wilderness: A History of Music in Denver 1860-1925. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 2006.
Mills, Derek M. "Ever Young, An American Epic," Washington, D.C.: The Washington Opera, Issue 73, Winter 1996-97.
Minich, Jan C. The Letters of Silver Dollar: Poems by Jan C. Minich. Salt Lake City: City Art, 2002.
Morris, Jr., Roy Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Moynihan, Betty Augusta Tabor: A Pioneering Woman. Evergreen, Colorado: Cordillera Press, 1988.
Noel, Thomas J. Buildings of Colorado. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Parker, Ann Leaden Skies: A Silver Rush Mystery (fiction). Scottsdale, Arizona: Poisoned Pen Press, 2009. [Takes place in 1880 boomtown Leadville.]
Peterson, Richard H. Bonanza Rich: Lifestyles of the Western Mining Entrepreneurs. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1991.
Roberts, Martha Gaby Honeymaid: The Story of Silver Dollar Tabor. Denver: Golden Bell Press, 1977.
Rosenberg, Rebecca Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor, Lander, Wyoming: Lion Heart Publishing, 2019.
Satterthwait, Walter Wilde West. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
Smith, Duane A. Henry M. Teller: Colorado’s Grand Old Man. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
--------------------- Horace Tabor: His Life and The Legend. Boulder, Colorado: Associated University Press, 1973.
---------------------, with Moriarty, John The Ballad of Baby Doe "I Shall Walk Beside My Love." Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
Stein, Donna Baier The Silver Baron’s Wife. Florham Park, New Jersey: Serving House Books, 2016.
Taitt, Mary Sawle Opera House Stories & Teller House Tales. Arvada: Colorado Minuteman Press, 1990.
---------------------- Taller Teller House Tales. Central City: Mary Taitt, 1996.
Temple, Judy Nolte “The Demons of Elizabeth Tabor: Mining 'Dreams and Visions' from the Matchless” Colorado Heritage Winter 2001. Denver: Colorado Historical Society.
----------------------"Fragments as Diary: Theoretical Implications of the Dreams and Visions of 'Baby Doe' Tabor," Bunkers, Suzanne L. and Huff, Cynthia A. (eds.) Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
---------------------- Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Vernon, John All for Love: Baby Doe and Silver Dollar. (fiction) New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Wagener, Hans Carl Zuckmayer Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1983.
Waters, Frank Midas of the Rockies: The Story of Stratton and Cripple Creek. Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc., 1972.
Wheeler, Richard S. Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1997.
Williamson, Ruby G. From Kansas to the Matchless: A Tabor Story 1857-1880. Gunnison, Colorado: B & B Printers, 1975.
Willison, George F. Here They Dug the Gold. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. Also published as The Gold Rush: The Search for Treasure in the American West.
Wolle, Muriel Sibell Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado. Denver: Sage Books, 1949.
Zuckmayer, Carl Das Leben des Horace A.W.Tabor. Frankfurt a. M.: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, 1964.
"Baby Doe Her Life and Legend," COLORADO PROSPECTOR, Vol.19, No.4, July 1988.
"Baby Doe Tabor Freezes To Death While on Guard at Matchless Mine,"The Denver Post, Vol. 43, No. 218, March 8, 1935. Numerous additional support articles in this special edition.
"Death in Shack Takes 'Baby Doe'," The (Washington) Evening Star,
March 8, 1935.
"Death of Ex-Senator Tabor," The Washington Post, April 11, 1899.
“A Glimpse Through California Gulch in Early Days,” as compiled from Leadville, Daily Chronicle, April 7, 1879, Daily Democrat, March 13, 1880 (reprinted in Mountain Diggins Leadville Area History, Number 13. Leadville: Lake County Civic Center Association, 1983.)
"The McCourt-Tabor Marriage," The Washington Post, March 2, 1883.
"Pioneer Women: Good and Bad," LIFE, May 11, 1959.
"Senator Tabor's Wedding," The Washington Post, March 3, 1883.
"Society Notes,"Washington Star, March 2, 1883.
"Tabor Widow Frozen to Death At Mine, Her Riches Vanished,"The Washington Post, March 8, 1935.
“Who Came First: The Party of Five that Discovered California Gulch,” Leadville, Daily Chronicle, June 17, 1879 (reprinted in Mountain Diggings Leadville Area History, Number 14. Leadville: Lake County Civic Center Association, 1984.)
"Widow of Tabor Freezes in Shack," The New York Times, March 8, 1935.
"A Wild Western Senator," Washington Star, March 5, 1883.
About Mining
Brown, Robert L. The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1985.
Cocharan, Alice Cowan Miners, Merchants, and Missionaries: The Roles of Missionaries and Pioneer Churches in the Colorado Gold Rush and Its Aftermath, 1858-1870. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., and The American Theological Library Association, 1980.
Eberhart, Perry Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Denver: Sage Books (Alan Swallow), 1959.
Gilfallan, George and Ruth Among the Tailings, A Guide to Leadville Mines. Leadville: The Herald Democrat, 1964.
Greever, William S. The Bonanza West: The Story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.
Goodstein, Phil The Ghosts of Denver: Capitol Hill. Denver: New Social Publications, 1996.
Hollister, Ovando J. The Mines of Colorado. New York, Promontory Press, 1974, reprint of Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1867.
Ingham, G. Thomas Digging Gold Among the Rockies or Exciting Adventures of Wild Camp Life. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, Publishers, 1888.
Lewis, Marvin, ed. The Mining Frontier: Contemporary Accounts from the American West in the Nineteenth Century. Norman: Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.
Peterson, Richard H. The Bonanza Kings: The Social Origins and Business Behavior of Western Mining Entrepreneurs, 1870-1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
----------------------- Bonanza Rich: Lifestyles of the Western Mining Entrepreneurs. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1991.
Shirley, Gayle C. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women. Guildford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2002.
Smith, Duane A. Henry M. Teller: Colorado’s Grand Old Man. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
----------------------- Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1992.
----------------------- San Juan Gold: A Mining Engineer’s Adventures, 1879-1881. Montrose, Colorado: Western Reflections Publishing Company, 2002.
Voynick, Stephen M. Leadville: A Miner's Epic. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1984.
Waters, Frank Midas of the Rockies. Denver: Alan Swallow, Publisher, 1949.
Wenworth, Frank L. A Silver Baron, Iowa City, Iowa: The Mercer Printing Company, 1932, fiction
“A Glimpse Through California Gulch in Early Days,” as compiled from Leadville, Daily Chronicle, April 7, 1879, Daily Democrat, March 13, 1880 (reprinted in Mountain Diggins Leadville Area History, Number 13. Leadville: Lake County Civic Center Association, 1983.)
Walk Through Historical Riverside Cemetery, Denver: Fairmount Heritage Foundation, 2001.
“Who Came First: The Party of Five that Discovered California Gulch,”Leadville, Daily Chronicle, June 17, 1879 (reprinted in Mountain Diggings Leadville Area History, Number 14. Leadville: Lake County Civic Center Association, 1984.)
About Colorado
Athearn, Robert The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: Rebel of the Rockies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
Ballast, David Kent The Denver Chronicle: From a Golden Past to a Mile-High Future. Houston: Gulf Publishing, 1995.
Brenneman, Bill Miracle on Cherry Creek. Denver: World Press, Inc., 1973.
Bretz, James Denver’s Early Architecture. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2010.
Brown, Robert L. Colorado Ghost Towns--Past and Present. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1993.
--------------------- The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1985.
Chapman, Arthur The Story of Colorado: Out Where the West Begins. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1924.
Criswell, Millie Sweet Laurel. New York: Warner Books, 1996. fiction
Crossen, Forest Western Yesterdays: No Night in Creede and Other Stories. Fort Collins: Robinson Press, 1980.
Dallas, Sandra Yesterday’s Denver. Miami: E.A. Seeman Publishing, Inc., 1974.
Ellis, Amanda M. The Strange, Uncertain Years: An Informal Account of Life in Six Colorado Communities. Hamden, Connecticut: The Shoe String Press, 1959.
Ellis, Elmer Henry Moore Teller: Defender of the West. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1941.
Eherts, Walter, trans. "Striking it Rich in Leadville," WILD WEST. June 1996, orig. from Jorden Rundt Efter Guld by Andersen, Robert, 1938.
Folwer, Gene Timber Line: Denver-The Rip Roaring Years. Sausalito: Comstock Editions, 1977.
Fossett, Frank Tourist Guide to Colorado in 1879, Colorado Springs, Gold Dirt Press, 2002 (first published as Colorado, Its Gold and Silver Mines, Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts—Tourist’s Guide to the Rocky Mountains. New York: C.G. Crawford, 1879.)
French, Emily Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Working Woman. Lecompte, Janet, ed., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
Griswold, Don and Jean Colorado's Century of "Cities." Don and Jean Griswold and Fred M. and Jo Mazzulla, 1958.
Hafen, LeRoy R. and Ann W. Colorado: A Story of the State and its People. Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1946.
Kamphausen, Dana Dunbar The Central City Story, Idaho Springs: The dana Company, 1976.
Kohl, Edith Eudora Denver’s Historic Mansions Denver: Sage Books, 1957.
Larsh, Ed B. & Nichols, Robert Leadville U.S.A. Boulder: Johnson Books, 1993.
Lavender, David The Rockies, New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Lee, W. Storrs, ed. Colorado: A Literary Chronicle. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970.
Michener, James A. Centennial. Greenwich: Fawcett Crest Books, 1974.
Osterwald, Doris B. High Line to Leadville: A Mile by Mile Guide for the Leadville. Colorado & Southern Railroad. Lakewood, Colorado: Western Guideways, Ltd., 1991.
Ronzio, Richard A. Silver Images of Colorado: Denver Album & The 1866 Business Directory, Vol. I. Denver: Sundance Publications, Ltd., 1986.
Ross, Dana Fuller Colorado!. New York: Bantam Books, 1981, fiction.
Smith, Duane A. The Birth of Colorado: A Civil War Perspective. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
----------------------- & Benson, Maxine & Ubbelohde, Carl A Colorado History. Boulder: Pruett Publishing, 1972.
----------------------- Durango Diary. Durango, Colorado: The Herald Press, 1996.
----------------------- Henry M. Teller: Colorado’s Grand Old Man. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
----------------------- Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1992.
----------------------- Rocky Mountain West: Colorado, Wyoming & Montana 1859-1915. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Spraque, Marshall Colorado: A Bicentennial History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1976.
Taitt, Mary Sawle Opera House Stories and Teller House Tales. Arvada: Minuteman Press, 1990.
Tenney, E.P. Colorado: and Homes in the New West. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1880.
Underwood, Kathleen Town Building on the Colorado Frontier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
Waters, Frank The Colorado. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946.
The Colorado Press Association, Inc. Who’s Who in Colorado. Boulder: The Colorado Press Association, Inc., 1938.
Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration Colorado: A Guide to the Highest State, New York: Hastings House, 1941.
About Kansas
Bogart, Jim, Brannan, Roger, Setterquist, Doris, Setterquist, Charles and Tippin, Doug The Rural Schools of Riley County Kansas. Manhattan, Kansas: Riley County Historical Society, 2004.
Connelley, William E., ed. Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society 1913-1914. XIII, Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1915.
Frank, Thomas What's The Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won The Heart of America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004.
Franzwa, Gregory M. The Oregon Trail Revisited. St. Louis: The Patrice Press, 1972.
Gower, Calvin W. "Aids to Prospective Prospectors: Guidebooks and Letters from Kansas Territory, 1858-1860" Topeka: The Kansas Historical Quarterly, XLIII, Spring 1977, Number 1.
Jack, Lowell A History of Manhattan, Kansas: Riley County and Ft. Riley Manhattan, Kansas: Hawley Printing, 2003.
McFarland, Gerald A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
McMahon, Thomas McKay’s Bees (fiction). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979 [portrays life in “immigrant” Kansas in 1855.
Mullis, Tony R. Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.
Nichols, Alice Bleeding Kansas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.
Olds, Bruce Raising Holy Hell: A Novel of John Brown. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Olson, Kevin G.W. Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2012.
Ryman, Geoff Was. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Parrish, Donald This Land is Our Land: The Public Domain in the Vicinity of Riley County and Manhattan, Kansas. Manhattan, Kansas: Riley County Historical Society, 2003.
Stevenson, Anna B. A Sunflower Sheaf: stories and anecdotes of the early and later days of the Sunflower State. New York: The Exposition Press, 1946.
Stuewe, Paul K., ed. Kansas Revisited: Historical Images and Perspectives, Lawrence: University of Kansas, Division of Continuing Education, 1990.
Thayer, Eli A History of The Kansas Crusade: Its Friends and Its Foes. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1889 (reprinted Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.)
Williams, Robert Hamilton With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868 London: John Murray, 1907 (reprinted Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.)
Wineapple, Brenda Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877. New York: Harper Collins, 2013.
Zornow, William Frank Kansas: A History of the Jayhawk State. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.
About the West
Bergon, Frank and Pananikolas, Zeese Looking Far West, The Search for The American West In History, Myth and Literature. New York: New American Library, 1978.
Billington, Ray Allen The Far Western Frontier: 1830-1860. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1956.
Burton, Sir Richard The Look of the West, 1860: Across the Plains to California. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. (reprinted from The City of the Saints and Across the Mountains to California, London: Longman, Green and Roberts, 1862.)
Carpenter, Allan The Encyclopedia of The Central West. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
Frazier, Ian Great Plains. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.
Haase, Ynez D. & Beck, Warren A. Historical Atlas of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
Hafen, Leroy R., ed. To the Pike’s Peak Gold Fields, 1859. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004, reprint of The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1942.
Hewitt, James, ed. Eye-Witnesses to Wagon Trains West. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973.
Herndon, Sarah Raymond Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865. New York: Burr Printing House, 1902.
Larson, Robert W. Populism in the Mountain West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Marcy, Captain Randolph B. The Prairie Traveler, reprint, Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewood Books, 1989 (originally published 1859).
Metcalfe, R.L. The Great Fight for Free Silver, Led by William Jennings Bryan, New York: Edgewood Publishing Company, 1897.
Smith, H. Allen We Went Thataway. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949.
Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. fiction
Stone, Irving Men to Match My Mountains: The Monumental Saga of the Winning of America's Far West. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1956.
THE WEST: A Collection from Harper's Magazine, New York: Gallery Books, 1990.
About Douglas Moore, John Latouche and The Opera
Bamberger, William C. Kenward Elmslie: A Bigliographical Profile. Flint, Michigan: Bamberger Books, 1993.
Basserman, Maude and Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker The Hotchkiss School. Lakeville, Connecticut: The Hotchkiss School, 1966. [Moore was an alumnus of The Hotchkiss School.]
Bauer, Marion Twentieth Century Music: How it Developed, How to Listen to It. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947.
Benet, Stephen Vincent The Devil and Daniel Webster: An Opera in One Act. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
Bloom, Julius The Year in American Music 1946-1947. New York: Allen, Towne & Heath, 1947.
Cauvin, Andre and Latouche, John Congo. New York: Willow, White & Co., 1945.
Davis, Ronald L. A History of Opera in the American West. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
Drossin, Julius & Martin, William R. Music of the Twentieth Century, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
Drummond, Andrew H. American Opera Librettos. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1973.
Guy, Nancy The Magic of Beverly Sills. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Haagensen, Erik John Latouche, New York, 2002.
Hoffmann, Kari Ragan The Ballad of Baby Doe: Historical Accuracy and Gender Ideology in the Characterization of Augusta and Baby Doe. University of Washington, 2005. doctoral thesis.
Johnson, Charles A. Opera in the Rockies: A History of the Central City Opera House Association 1932-1992. Central City: Central City Opera House Association, 1992.
Kanzeg, David G. The Ballad of Baby Doe and the American Spirit, Cleveland: January 2003.
Kenny, Vincent S. Paul Green. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971. [This is Green’s bio. Though there is nothing in this book about Moore, Latouche or the opera, Paul Green was Moore’s original and unsuccessful collaborator on trying to write “Colorado opera” for Central City.
Kinross, Lord The Innocents at Home. London: John Murray, 1959.
Kinscella, Hazel Gertrude Music on the Air. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1934. [Contains a 2 ½ page biographical sketch of Moore.]
Kirk, Elise K. American Opera Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Larue, C. Steven, ed. and Shrimpton, Leanda, pic.ed. International Directionary of Opera. Detroit: St. James Press, 1993.
McKee, David "You've Come a Long Way, BABY DOE," OPERA NEWS, Vol.61, No.8, January 11, 1997.
------------------ "The Great American Opera?" Performing Arts, San Francisco Opera 2000/2001 Season.
Mills, Derek M. "You Got a Home Now, Honey, Porgy and Bess and the Making of American Opera," Seattle Opera Magazine, January 1994 or 95?.
McBride, Jerry L. Douglas Moore: A Bio-Bibliography. Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc. and Music Library Association, 2011.
Mordden, Ethan Opera in the Twentieth Century: Sacred, Profane, Godot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Moore, Douglas A Guide to Musical Styles: From Madrigal to Modern Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1942.
----------------------- Listening to Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1937.
----------------------- "Something about librettos," Opera News, New York, Sept. 30, 1961.
Oenslager, Donald M. The Theatre of Donald Oenslager. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1978.
Paolucci, Bridget Beverly Sills. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.
Pollack, Howard The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist’s Life and Work. New York, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Posell, Elsa Z. American Composers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.
Reagan, Donald Joseph Douglas Moore and His Orchestral Works. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1972. doctoral thesis
Rudel, Julius and Paller, Rebecca First and Lasting Impressions: Julius Rudel Looks Back on a Life in Music. Rochester:University of Rochester Press, 2013.
Scott, Eleanor The First Twenty Years of The Santa Fe Opera. Santa Fe: The Santa Fe Opera, circa 1976.
Sills, Beverly & Linderman, Lawrence Beverly: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1987.
------------------- Bubbles: A Self Portrait. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976.
------------------- Bubbles: An Encore by Beverly Sills, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1981.
Smith, Duane A., with Moriarty, John The Ballad of Baby Doe "I Shall Walk Beside My Love." Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
Suskin, Steven Opening Night on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Golden era of the Musical Theatre, Oklahoma! (1943) to Fiddler on the Roof (1964). New York: Schirmer Books, 1990.
--------------------- Show Tunes 1905-1991: The Songs, Shows and Careers of Broadway’s Major Composers. New York: Limelight Editions, 1992.
Thomson, Virgil American Music Since 1910. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Vacha, John The Music Went 'Round and Around: The Story of Musicarnival. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2004.
Vidal, Gore The Golden Age: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Weitzel, Jay Harol A Melodic Analysis of Selected Vocal Solos in the Operas of Douglas Moore. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1971. doctoral dissertation.
Young, Allen Opera in Central City. Denver: Spectrographics, Inc., 1993.
Central City Opera: Looking Back Over Sixty Years 1932-1992. Central City Opera Association, 1992.
The Glory That Was Gold. Denver, The Central City Opera House Association of the University of Denver, July 16, 1932.
About (and by) Carl Zuckmayer
Barth, Karl and Zuckmayer, Carl. A Late Friendship: The Letters of Karl Barth and Carl Zuckmayer . Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982, translated by Bromiley, Geoffrey W.
Bauer, Arnold Carl Zuckmayer. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1976, translated by Simmons, Edith
Balinkin, Ausma The Central WOMEN Figures in Carl Zuckmayer's Dramas. Bern: Peter Lang Ltd., 1978.
Block, Haskell M. and Shedd, Robert G. Masters of Modern Drama, New York: Random House, 1963, contains The Devil's General, translated by Gilbert, Igrid G. and William F.
Herdan-Zuckmayer, Alice (Washington, Ida H. & Carol E. transl.) The Farm in the Green Mountains. Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press, 1987.
Hertog, Susan Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and Power. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
Grange, William Partnership in the German Theatre: Zuckmayer and Hilpert, 1925-1961. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1991.
Shaw, Leroy R. The German Theater Today: A Symposium. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963.
Wagener, Hans Carl Zuckmayer Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1983.
Zuckmayer, Carl Als war's ein Stuck von Mir. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fisscher Verlag, 1992.
---------------------- A Part of Myself, Portrait of an Epoch, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970, originally in German, Als war's ein Stuck von Mir, translated by Winston, Richard and Clara.
--------------------- The Capitain of Kopenick. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1932.
---------------------- Das Leben des Horace A.W.Tabor. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, 1964.
---------------------- Der Hauptmann von Kopenick. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1994.
---------------------- Der frohliche Weinberg. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1993.
--------------------- Der Rattenfanger. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1992.
---------------------- Des Teufels General. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1993.
---------------------- Schinderhannes. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1993.
---------------------- Second Wind. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1941.
---------------------- The Moons Ride Over. New York: The Viking Press, 1937, originally in German, Salware: oder Die Magdalena von Bozen. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag A.G., 1935.
About Douglas Moore, John Latouche and The Opera
Bamberger, William C. Kenward Elmslie: A Bibliographical Profile. Flint, Michigan: Bamberger Books, 1993.
Basserman, Maude and Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker. The Hotchkiss School. Lakeville, Connecticut: The Hotchkiss School, 1966. [Moore was an alumnus of The Hotchkiss School.]
Beeson, Jack. How Operas are Created by Composers and Librettists: The Life of Jack Beeson, American Opera Composer. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2008.
Bauer, Marion. Twentieth Century Music: How it Developed, How to Listen to It. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947.
Benet, Stephen Vincent. The Devil and Daniel Webster: An Opera in One Act. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
Blooding, Randie L. “Douglas Moore’s ‘The Ballad of Baby Doe’: An Investigation of its Historical Accuracy and the Feasibility of a Historical Production in the Tabor Opera House.” DMA diss., Ohio State University, 1979.
Bloom, Julius The Year in American Music 1946-1947. New York: Allen, Towne & Heath, 1947.
Cauvin, Andre and Latouche, John. Congo. New York: Willow, White & Co., 1945.
Davis, Ronald L. A History of Opera in the American West. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
Drossin, Julius & Martin, William R. Music of the Twentieth Century, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
Drummond, Andrew H. American Opera Librettos. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1973.
Fisher, Burton D. The Ballad of Baby Doe: Opera in Two Acts. [Miami, FL]: Opera Journeys, [2007].
Guy, Nancy. The Magic of Beverly Sills. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Haagensen, Erik. John Latouche, New York, 2002.
Hoffmann, Kari Ragan. The Ballad of Baby Doe: Historical Accuracy and Gender Ideology in the Characterization of Augusta and Baby Doe. University of Washington, 2005. Doctoral thesis.
Johnson, Charles A. Opera in the Rockies: A History of the Central City Opera House Association 1932-1992. Central City: Central City Opera House Association, 1992.
Kanzeg, David G. The Ballad of Baby Doe and the American Spirit, Cleveland: January 2003.
Kenny, Vincent S. Paul Green. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971. [This is Green’s bio. Though there is nothing in this book about Moore, Latouche or the opera, Paul Green was Moore’s original and unsuccessful collaborator on trying to write “Colorado opera” for Central City].
Kinross, Lord. The Innocents at Home. London: John Murray, 1959.
Kinscella, Hazel Gertrude. Music on the Air. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1934. [Contains a 2 ½ page biographical sketch of Moore.]
Kirk, Elise K. American Opera Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
*Larue, C. Steven, ed. and Shrimpton, Leanda, pic.ed. International Directionary of Opera. Detroit: St. James Press, 1993.*
*McKee, David. "You've Come a Long Way, BABY DOE," OPERA NEWS, Vol.61, No.8, January 11, 1997.*
*------------------ "The Great American Opera?" Performing Arts, San Francisco Opera 2000/2001 Season. *
*Mills, Derek M. "You Got a Home Now, Honey, Porgy and Bess and the Making of American Opera," Seattle Opera Magazine, January [1994 or 95].*
McBride, Jerry L. Douglas Moore: A Bio-Bibliography. Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc. and Music Library Association, 2011.
Mordden, Ethan. Opera in the Twentieth Century: Sacred, Profane, Godot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Moore, Douglas. A Guide to Musical Styles: From Madrigal to Modern Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1942.
----------------------- Listening to Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1937.
*----------------------- "Something about librettos," Opera News, New York, Sept. 30,
1961.*
-----------------------, John J. “Jack Niles” and A. A. “Wally” Wallgreen. Songs my Mother Never Taught Me. NYC: Gold Label Books, 1929.
Oenslager, Donald M. The Theatre of Donald Oenslager. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1978.
Posell, Elsa Z. American Composers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.
Reagan, Donald Joseph. Douglas Moore and His Orchestral Works. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1972. Doctoral thesis
Rubinstein, Stan. A Day On and About the Historic Cutchogue Village Green. Cutchogue, NY: The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council, 2002.
Rudel, Julius and Paller, Rebecca. First and Lasting Impressions: Julius Rudel Looks Back on a Life in Music. Rochester:University of Rochester Press, 2013.
*Scott, Eleanor. The First Twenty Years of The Santa Fe Opera. Santa Fe: The Santa Fe Opera, circa 1976.*
Sills, Beverly & Linderman, Lawrence. Beverly: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1987.
------------------- Bubbles: A Self Portrait. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976.
------------------- Bubbles: An Encore by Beverly Sills, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1981.
Smith, Duane A., with Moriarty, John The Ballad of Baby Doe "I Shall Walk Beside My Love." Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
Suskin, Steven. Opening Night on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Golden era of the Musical Theatre, Oklahoma! (1943) to Fiddler on the Roof (1964). New York: Schirmer Books, 1990.
--------------------- Show Tunes 1905-1991: The Songs, Shows and Careers of Broadway’s Major Composers. New York: Limelight Editions, 1992.
Thomson, Virgil. American Music Since 1910. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Vacha, John. The Music Went 'Round and Around: The Story of Musicarnival. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2004.
*Vidal, Gore. The Golden Age: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2000.*
Weitzel, Jay Harol. A Melodic Analysis of Selected Vocal Solos in the Operas of Douglas Moore. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1971. Doctoral dissertation.
Young, Allen. Opera in Central City. Denver: Spectrographics, Inc., 1993.
Central City Opera: Looking Back Over Sixty Years 1932-1992. Denver: Central City Opera Association, 1992.
The Glory That Was Gold. Denver: The Central City Opera House Association of the University of Denver, July 16, 1932.
Further Reading
Algeo, Matthew The President is a Sick Man. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011. This book about Grover Cleveland’s “secret” illness also provides an excellent primer on the politics surrounding “bimetallism” in the 1890s.
Hicks, Darryl E. Marijohn: Lord, Let Me Leave A Song. Word Books, 1978. Marijohn Wilkin wrote a song, “The Ballad of Baby Doe” along with John D. Loudermilk (who also wrote the 1959 hit “Waterloo”), sung by Cajun/country star Jimmy Newman.
Loerzel, Robert “Reel Chicago” Chicago Magazine, May 2007 [When Silver Dollar Tabor moved to Chicago she got involved in making movies.]
Witcover, Walt My Road Less Traveled: Becoming an Actor, a Director, a Teacher.
Budapest: Fekete K, 2011. [Leyna Gabriele, the first to sing Baby Doe’s music, was a student, friend and colleague of Walt Witcover.]
