Gold digger: the remarkable baby doe tabor - rebecca rosenberg

One look at Baby Doe and you know she was meant to be a legend She was just twenty years old when she came to Colorado to work a gold mine with her new husband.

Little did she expect that shed be abandoned and pregnant and left to manage the gold mine alone.

But that didnt stop her She moved to Leadville and fell in love with a married prospector, twice her age.

Horace Tabor struck the biggest silver vein in history, divorced his wife and married Baby Doe.

Though his new wife was known for her beauty, her fashion, and even her philanthropy, she was never welcomed in polite society.

Discover how the Tabors navigated the worlds of wealth, power, politics, and scandal in the wild days of western mining.