num_pages: 244
description: Horace and Augusta Tabor left Maine to seek their fortune and ended up in the mining camps of Colorado. While Horace panned for gold, Augusta prepared meals for miners. Eventually she opened a store and became postmistress while raising their young son.One day they were happily at work and the next day Horace struck it rich and everything he touched turned to gold, or rather, silver. It was then that their lives diverged. After twenty years of hard work and unity, Augusta was renounced as an embarrassment by a man who could buy anything in the world.
language: English
title: Matchless
titlecomplete: Matchless (Five Star First Edition Westerns)
ratings_count: 9
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: WILLA Literary Award
category: Historical Fiction (Finalist)
publisher: Five Star