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Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen

Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen

Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Wisconsin. She moved west, married a man named Harvey Doe, and came to be called â€œBabyâ€ by the miners in Central City, Colorado. After attracting the attention of wealthy â€œSilver Kingâ€ Horace Tabor of Leadville, she began a very public affair with Tabor ending with marriage in a private ceremony in 1882.

A lavish lifestyle followed but ended abruptly after fifteen years with loss of the Tabor fortune in the Silver Crash and Horace's death in 1899. Baby Doe spent the last thirty-five years of her life in a small cabin outside the Matchless Mine in Leadville.

â€œLohse has written a succinct and enjoyable history of what is perhaps the greatest rags-to-riches-to-rags story in the American Westâ€”how Baby Doe Tabor became the Matchless Silver Queen.â€œ
â€”Robert E. Hartzell, Executive Director, National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
Country USA
Brand Filter Press, LLC
Manufacturer Filter Press LLC
Binding Paperback
PartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
Height 8.5
Length 5.5
Weight 0.440924524
Width 0.25
ReleaseDate 2011-04-21
NumberOfItems 1

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