Baby Doe of Colorado...
G'day mates! Happy Eve of Memorial Day Weekend! Today I wanted to write about some fascinating Colorado history... Perhaps you've heard of the Tabor legend/fortune of Colorado. Perhaps you haven't. At any account, I'd like to present to you: Elizabeth McCourt Tabor...otherwise known by her nickname, Baby Doe. She is best known for her rags-to-riches and then back to rags lifestyle that even inspired an opera. Baby Doe Elizabeth Tabor Horace Tabor Called Lizzie as an adolescent, she was the fourth of eleven children. She was excused from chores as a child, because her mother instilled in her that looks were the greatest worth a women could bring to the table. She wanted Lizzie to be a starlet (as her father owned a local theatre). She moved to Colorado in 1870 with her then husband Harvey Doe. She helped him often in the mines, and her mining clothes were considered scandalous. They were unsuccessful in mining gold, so Harvey asked El...