In my historical novel, Silver Echoes, the protagonist, Silver Dollar Tabor, spends her life trying to escape the shadow of her famous parents, but she can never truly escape the powerful, volatile element that defines her family’s existence: silver.

The story of the Tabor family is the definitive American tragedy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a tale that begins with unimaginable wealth, forged from the mountains of Colorado, and ends in a legendary, heartbreaking vigil in a frozen, one-room cabin. This is the story of the rise and the catastrophic fall of the Silver King, and how that crash left Baby Doe Tabor and Silver Dollar Tabor with nothing but a crumbling promise—the Matchless Mine.

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