Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack

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Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack is written by Jane Bardal and published by History Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1439677808 (ISBN 10) and 9781439677803 (ISBN 13).

"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.