Baby Doe Tabor reigned as Colorado’s sweetheart. Her golden curls, cherubic face and ample bosom titillated many and caught her man, the silver mining magnate and future U.S. Sen. Horace Tabor.

LEADVILLE • When approaching Colorado’s most famed shack on a gloomy summer morning, it’s easy to imagine Baby Doe Tabor bolting out her door to order yet another inquisitive reporter to depart.

A telenovela plot? No, it was real life in the American Old West for Elizabeth McCourt Doe Tabor, known in the 1880s as “Baby Doe” as her second marriage became the scandal of the day.

Its most notorious chapter, they say, was a period during the 1890s when the instrument adorned the living quarters of mining tycoon Horace Tabor and his wife Baby Doe at the Windsor Hotel.

Nearly a century has passed since the death of Colorado icon Elizabeth Doe Tabor, celebrated by her moniker, “Baby Doe,” yet she continues to fascinate. To most, she is remembered as a wealthy ...

Elizabeth “Baby” Doe Tabor once lived within sight of the Central City Opera House, so perhaps it was only fitting that a company based in the historic mining town would commission composer ...

S. Senator Horace Austin Warner (“Silver Dollar”) Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt (“Baby”) Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace ...

KUSA - On Dec. 17, 1889, Rose Mary Silver Dollar Echo Tabor was born, the second child of Horace and Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor. Known as Silver Dollar, her name reflects the source of the Tabors ...

The opera tells the story of Leadville silver tycoon Horace Tabor and “Baby” Doe Tabor’s highly scandalous relationship. “I had three principal singers that were excited about this project and I’ve ...

Employees were expected to be well-versed in the true history of Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor, a Colorado socialite who rose to fame after senator and silver tycoon Horrace Tabor left his wife ...