Mabel Barbee Lee (1884–1979)
Autor von Cripple Creek Days, A Nostalgic Reminiscence of the Last of the Great Gold Rush Towns
Werke von Mabel Barbee Lee
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- Geburtstag
- 1884-04-11
- Todestag
- 1979-12-12
- Begräbnisort
- Mount Pisgah Cemetery, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Silver Reef, Utah, USA
- Sterbeort
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA
- Ausbildung
- Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Berufe
- autobiographer
teacher
college administrator - Beziehungen
- Thomas, Lowell (student)
- Kurzbiographie
- Mabel Barbee Lee was born in Utah, and moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado as a small child with her parents, Johnson R. Barbee and Kitty Appleby, during the late 19th-century Gold Rush. She attended the Cutler Academy in Colorado Springs and Colorado College, and became a teacher. In 1908, she married Howard Shields Lee, a mining engineer with whom she had a daughter, and for 10 years accompanied him for his work at mining areas from Oregon to Mexico. After his death, she become dean of women at Colorado College in 1922, and then served as an administrator at Bennington College, Radcliffe College, and the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote some articles for publications such as Atlantic Monthly Reader's Digest, and was encouraged by Lowell Thomas, a former pupil, to publish her first memoir, Cripple Creek Days, in 1958, when she was 75 years old. This volume was followed by four more autobiographical books, And Suddenly It's Evening (1963), The Rainbow Years (1966), Back in Cripple Creek (1968), and The Gardens of My Life (1970).
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This is a memoir of social life and culture of the rising gold mining industry in the Pikes Peak region. It is complete with accounts of train wrecks, strikes, and even street fighting. The quality of detail and style of writing makes it a popular read often cited in history books on the topic over 50 years later.… (mehr)