By: Kayla Rose

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Born in England in 1831 to a traveling church minister
Sick and as a child had a tumor removed from her spine.
Suffered from insomnia and depression but was believed to have been psychogenic illnesses

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Found a passion for traveling
In 1854 her father gave her
100 Euros to travel
Traveled first to America and eastern Canada and wrote experiences in The
Englishwoman in America
Returned home when father died to live with Henrietta, but became ill and unsatisfied.

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Traveling healed her mental health
Decided to leave Henrietta
Traveled to Hawaii in 1872
Wrote experiences in Six
Months in the Sandwich
Islands

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Next she traveled to Western
Coast
Alone, set by horse through
Lake Tahoe and to Rocky
Mountains
Climbed over 800 miles of the
Rocky Mountains
Climbed Longs Peak
Experienced frost bite, broken ribs and arms, frozen shut eye lids, and freezing cold weather.

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Wrote A Lady’s Life in the
Rocky Mountains which is of letters and drawings to
Henrietta.
Journeyed through CO with
Jim Nugent
They became great friends with some rumors of romance

September 28, 1873
“I have just dropped in to the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all of my dreams.”
(Longs Peak)

“My home in the Rocky
Mountains”
Griff Evans Ranch

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When she left Colorado, Jim was shot and killed.
John Bishop fell in love with her back at home, but she was ill and unhappy.
Traveled to Asia
Henrietta died in 1880 and she was devastated and accepted Bishops proposal.

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Throughout marriage, she was ill and unhappy until
Bishop died in 1886.
Decided to study medicine and missionary
Became well known to the places she traveled
Final journey was in 1897 in
China & Korea
Died at age 72 a couple months after returning

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Born in 1851 to a strict household in England
Moved to CO with her parents during The
Gold Rush
Moved to Leadville during silver boom
Introduced to gambling and fell in love with lavish lifestyle

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Married mining engineer, Frank Duffield
Duffield died in a mine explosion and Tubbs turned to gambling as a profession
Gambling helped pay bills and cure her grievances

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Would migrate through gambling halls in
Alamosa, Georgetown,
Central City and Trinidad
Left a reputation as a women who played poker with the men
Won $6,000 in Silver
City
By 1890’s became good luck charm to gamblers

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Her years living on the frontier “hardened her”
She was seen smoking cigars which became her greatest trademark
Always seen carrying a gun
Was known as a tough, shrew, brutal and honest.

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Settled in South Dakota and married W.G
Tubbs
When he died in a blizzard, she moved to
Sturgis,SD.
Opened “Poker
Palace” in Fort Meade and was successful.

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In 1920, prohibition became a law and gambling halls were shut down.
Tubbs was targeted by reformers
Arrested for selling alcohol, gambling, running a gambling house, and for killing a soldier who was attempting to force his way into her establishment

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Was acquitted and freed from jail where she had read the bible
Was broke and seen living in a ramshackle house hunting for fish to eat.
People of Sturgis were constantly trying to help her.
Her last gamble was for a dangerous surgery on her gull bladder.
She lost and died at age
79 in 1930

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First white born child in
Northwestern CO
Born to Pioneers
Herbert and Elizabeth
Bassett.
Elizabeth did not have milk, so Ann was nursed by a Ute Indian Woman
Adopted wild, free running independent ways of the Ute’s.

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Was a big part of her fathers ranch which was recognized as one of the most important in the state
Could ride a rope with the toughest cowboys
At mid-life she went to school in Salt Lake City and Boston.
Elizabeth & Herbert on the Ranch

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Returning to Browns
Park, both of her parents died.
Although she appreciated her new education, saving her father’s ranch was #1.
Devoted most of her time to the ranch

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Cattle Kings began to run herds on her land
They destroyed the land, blackballed and even killed people.
Basset grew angry with the cattle kings and the fact that there was no law against running the herds.
Formed a team and together they drove herds off cliffs and triggered stampedes.

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Ora Haley (master of Two Bar
Ranch) was Bassett’s biggest enemy.
Their fight was “long and ugly.”
Bassett was especially angry with Tom Horn (Haley’s top gun) and always accused him of killing her fiancé Matthew
Rash.
She married Hi Bernard in spite of Haley and Horn but it only lead to her own sadness and eventually a divorce.

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In 1913 Haley and
Bassett finally went to court for their fighting.
After a long trial, she was acquitted.
In 1923 she married
Frank Willis and moved they lived in Utah for the rest of her life.
Died after 78 th birthday and was buried in Brown’s
Park.

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Born in Omaha in 1886 to a wealthy banker and cattle owner.
Studied link between delinquency, prostitution, child labor practices, and economic depression in
NY.
In 1908, father became president of Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company and they moved to
Denver

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Roche furthered her education and would travel between Denver and NY.
In the 1900’s people thought of Denver as a nice place, when it was really suffering from social, political, and economic problems.
In 1912, George Creed recruited her to help clean up Denver.

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At age 24 she became
Denver’s first policewoman in history.
She patrolled theaters, saloons, gambling halls, and worked to neutralize prostitution.
Raided, arrested, and sheltered prostitution until it was gone.
Effective

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Prostitution was ending, and economy and businesses were at a downfall and as a result she was fired.
People believed it was because she was one of the only policewoman.
Turned to other social work opportunities and became involved with the Triangle
Shirtwaist Company fire of
1911
147 woman died and she fought for their exposure

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Became a probation officer
Continued to fight for prostitution but also became involved with juvenile offenders.
1925 father died and she inherited his money and became president of The Rocky Mountain
Fuel Company.

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Mid 1920’s coal industry was violent.
Low pay, no benefits, poverty, diseases, and death.
Roche wanted to improve the coal industry.
Instituted high wages of
$7 a day, re-established collective bargaining, donated land during off season, and became personable to her workers.

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Roche faced antagonism as other coal companies
(John D. Rockefeller Jr.) felt threatened.
Her company was stuck between high wages and low coal prices.
In 1931 her company loaned her $80,000 to keep it alive.
But in 1932 she was forced to drop wages to
$5.25

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Helped her workers, gave them land, gave them credit at company store, visited families and homes.
“One of the greatest humanitarians of our time-
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her has his assistant secretary of treasury. Here she led
56,000 federal workers in a battle against poverty.

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Job was to take
Americans out of poorhouses and put them into programs of economic security.
In 1937 she realized she had left her company at a bad time so she resigned.
Roosevelt kept her position open in hopes that she would return, but she never did.

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1944 The Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company filed bankruptcy.
Died at age 91
Remembered as a strong force to the mining industry, and progressive humanitarian, and was compared to Eleanor
Roosevelt
“studied man first, then business.”

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Born in Kentucky 1843 to a traditional mid-western
Jewish household.
Well educated and raised to become a loving mother/wife.
Taught school in Cincinnati where she met and fell in love with Abraham
Jacobs who had plans of moving West.

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He moved to CO at 25 and left Frances behind.
Until he later came back and they married in 1863.
They moved to the frontier together where they lived in the wilderness.

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On the frontier, she was constantly watched by
Indians and survived a wagon attack across
Westport.
Suffered from hunger and thirst
Eventually made it to
Central City where her husband gambled and became a business man.
Frances was at home with the children being the loving mother and wife.

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Unambiguous, quiet, and thing with dark eyes.
Accustomed to the fact that her husband was the successor.
Abraham made a clothing store in Central
City and with that money he later opened one in Denver

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Central City caught fire and Abraham’s store plus
$50,000 burned.
They moved to Denver where his efforts in a new store failed.
Abraham was deteriorating, daughter became a teacher and son became a lawyer
Frances suddenly felt needed in the outside world.

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Got involved with Charity
Movement of the mid
1870’s when Denver was a struggling city.
Became a member of
Hebrew Benevolent
Ladies Aid Society for
Jewish women but realized everyone was struggling, so she expanded it.

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Became core to charity movement and was helping the homeless and alcoholics.
Became the heart of The Ladies
Relief Society which focused on dispersing food and clothing, established clinics and nurseries and kindergartens.
Would speak about alcohol abuse and the importance of educating children and sheltering old and homeless.

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In 1887 brought 22 charities together in
Denver
Opened a free hospital named “Frances Jacobs
Hospital”
The National Jewish
Medical and Research
Center
1892 fell ill with pneumonia and her doctor gave her two options.

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She chose to work
2 days later, died after delivering medicine to a sick woman.
Only woman to have been selected for a stain glass portrait in Colorado
State Capital’s Dome
Recognized as being the foundation of charity organizations in
Colorado.
Denver’s Mile High United
Way

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Born in 1871and lived with grandparents in
Vermont after mother died at childbirth.
Pursued a medical career at Smith College
Discriminated as a woman attending medical school.
Became a teacher in
1896 because of this

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Finally accepted to
John Hopkins Medical
School and became a top student
Developed a model of an infant’s brain
Graduated in 1900 and had a career in medical research

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First doctor to research lymphatic system, blood cells, and tuberculosis.
Published textbooks and research published in respected medical journals n
1923 awarded 1 st woman elected in National Academy of
Sciences
1 st female president of the
American Association of
Anatomists.
1 st female to serve on state of
Rockefeller Institute of Medical research.

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1925 Pictorial Review awarded her “the most distinctive contribution made by an American woman.”
Good Housekeeping named her as one of twelve of America’s greatest women.
Retired at 67 and moved to Denver and appointed to head of the new state health subcommittee by governor

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Learned Colorado was an unhealthy state so she set goals to make changes.
Turned her subcommittee into a political action group demanding reform in health codes.
Advocated “Sabin
Health Laws”

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Passionate and dedicated to health reform of CO
Traveled and made would speech toward her efforts.
Retired again in 1951 age
80.
Died of a heart attack in
1953 while watching The
World Series Game on TV.
Recognized as a woman who enhanced quality of life.
Greatest humanitarian of
Colorado .

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