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Baby Doe, -1935

 Person

Biography

Citation:
found: O'Connor, R. The legend of Baby Doe, 1989: CIP t.p. (Baby Doe; the Silver Queen of the West) galley (Elizabeth McCourt Tabor, better known to her contemporaries and today as Baby Doe; her first husband was Harvey Doe; Elizabeth McCourt Doe; later married Horace Tabor; also called the Silver Queen of Colorado; d. 1935) OCLC WorldCat

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Rose Lucas for Colorado Reflections

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Identifier: couda-lucas
Abstract

Rose Lucas reflects on her childhood and her first memories of Colorado. Discussing her mother, who was a governess for the children of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor and her father, who opened the first Jewish bakery in Denver in the early 1900s. Lucas remembers horse-drawn wagons, making deliveries for the bakery, and working for the Golden Eagle. Recalls the City Hall Fire in 1898, the flood of 1905, and the robbery of the Denver Mint in 1920.

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