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Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack: Mining Queen of the Rockies
By Jane Bardal
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By Jane Bardal
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“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 ...