b'Jews continued from page 19Mears appealed for more coal - theIsrael. She also mettownsfolk of Silverton delivered. her future husband, Morris Meyerson, atAnd it was Mears himself, at thethese meetings.throttle of the lead engine, who for nine weeks brought supplies,A headstrong, forceful foodstuff, and equipment to thegirl, young Miss people of Silverton - and in effectMabovitch would soon saved both the mines and thequarrel with her sister, mining community. While heand having reconciled could never save nor bring back hiswith her parents, she beloved Rio Grande and Southern,chose to return to his actions in saving SilvertonMilwaukee to graduate from the floods, the snow and thefrom high school, blizzards and keeping the tracksmarry Morris, and after clear and open made possiblebecoming a naturalized the continuance of the Durango- US Citizen in 1917, she Silverton Railway, a Hollywoodand her husband chose and tourist favorite to this day. Butto move to what would the price paid by Mears himselfbecome the future state of was a personal one - his little bodyIsrael, but what was then could no longer take the cold, andNathan Meeker a British Mandate. Never his health permanently wrecked,turning her back on her the 75 year old Colorado Road anddream, she worked on a Railroad magnate bide his last living farewell, butKibbutz (communal farm), rose rapidly in the ranks not his dying one, to the Colorado he so loved (Ibid.,of the Zionist hierarchy, and upon Israel becoming pp.173-178). an independent nation, first served as an ambassador to the Soviet Union, starring down and speaking As Lavender commented, "Those deep snows werebluntly to Stalin\'s sycophants, then, upon returning to hard now for Otto Mears\'s tiny body to endure. InIsrael rapidly becoming labor minister, then foreign 1917 he moved to Pasadena, California, and there, inminister in the wake of the Six Day War - then 1931, aged ninety, he died. His last request was thatultimately becoming prime minister of Israel.his ashes and those of Mary Kampfshulte, the red-haired German girl he had married in 1870 when heLittle Goldie Mabovitch spent just a little more than was a two-bit Indian trader peddling goods out of antwo years in Denver, but as little Goldie, soon-to-adobe store in Saguache, be scattered over the dividebe-better known as Golda Meir would wrote in her between Lake City and Silverton,autobiography My Life high in the mountains he hadshe would document fought and conquered and loved"her Denver life and (Ibid., p. 178). experience in two quotes - the first, "It was in Denver A FUTURE ISRAELI PRIMEwhere my real education MINISTER GOES TO WORKbegan," the other being AT A DENVER LAUNDRY "To the extent that my It might be fitting, after relating theown future convictions saga of little Otto Mears who provedwere shaped and given to be, in Colorado, the biggestform. . .those talk-filled giant of them all, to conclude thisnights in Denver played segment of the history of Jewisha considerable role"on yT Plife in Colorado with the story of(Golda Meir Wikipedia how someone as equally diminutivebiography). ehas Mears, a teen-aged girl wishing for a better education left herAnd as the late Paul UW-Milwaukee LibrariesMilwaukee home to go to Colorado,Harvey would say, "Now2nd Hand Storewhich by then had become a state,you know the rest of the and live there with her sister forstory".of the little clothes over two years before returning topressing girl from DenverWe Collect & Deliver Milwaukee, marrying, and then,who would later become aYour Merchandisefulfilling a dream by making AliyahGoldie Mabovitch prime minister of Israel. . .to Israel. 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