- Mabel Barbee Lee
Mabel Barbee Lee (1884-1979) was an American
writer ,teacher at Victor High School, and administrator ofColorado College , the University of California in Berkeley, and other institutions. [Lee, Mabel Barbee: "Cripple Creek Days", page 262. Doubleday & Company, 1958 (LOC=58-12050)]Mabel was born in Silver Reef, Utah in 1884, and later grew up in
Cripple Creek, Colorado . She attendedColorado College before she started her career as a teacher. Later she married Howe Lee and followed him to mining areas across the continent. He died in and influenza outbreak and she went on to become Dean of Women at Colorado College from 1922 to 1929. She then went on to be administrator atBennington College , Radcliffe, Whitman, and theUniversity of California, Berkeley . She then returned to Colorado and visitedCripple Creek, Colorado in order to write "Cripple Creek Days." She went on to write a few more books before she died in 1979. There is an archive of her manuscripts in the Western History and Genealogy Department at theDenver Public Library and another, with her correspondence withLowell Thomas at the Colorado College Library.In 1930 she wrote an article titled Censoring the Conduct of College Women that was published in Atlantic Monthly. [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/193004/college-girls retrieved May 18, 2008 [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/193004/college-girls] ]
In 1959 she appeared on This is Your Life as a part of the life of
Lowell Thomas . [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635496/ retrieved May 18, 2008 [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635496/] ]Published works
*"Cripple Creek Days", 1958 Forward by
Lowell Thomas
*"And Suddenly It's Evening, A Fragment of Life", 1963
*"The Rainbow Years", 1966
*"Back in Cripple Creek", 1968
*"The Gardens in My Life; An Intimate Memoir", 1970Awards
*1958:
Spur Award for Best Nonfiction, "Cripple Creek Days"References
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