Baby Doe, -1935
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 WorldCatFound in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Civilizing the West: Early Colorado Jews in the Arts, 2011
Brief biographies of Jewish artists, musicians, composers, and conductors in Colorado. Jewish influence on arts in Colorado.
Hal Benson for Colorado Reflections
Hal Benson, a CU graduate, reflects on his childhood in Leadville, Colorado on a homestead and in town. Recalls watching the silver and ore smelters at a mine in Leadville and his connection with Baby Doe Tabor. Benson discusses the railroad industry in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, including railroad accidents. Discusses the influx of Chinese immigrants working for the Public Service Company building power lines in the mountains.
Rose Lucas for Colorado Reflections
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.