Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin
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The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado's wealthiest mining magnate and became the "Silver Queen of the West." Blessed with two daughters, Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized the world with their wealth and extravagance.But Baby Doe's life was also a morality play. Almost overnight, the Tabors' wealth disappeared when depression struck in 1893. Horace died six years later. According to the legend, one daughter left home never to return; the other died horribly. For thirty-five years, Baby Doe, who was considered mad, lived in solitude high in the Colorado Rockies.Baby Doe Tabor left a record of her madness in a set of writings she called her "Dreams and Visions." These were discovered after her death but never studied in detail—until now. Author Judy Nolte Temple retells Lizzie's story with greater accuracy than any previous biographer and reveals a story more heartbreaking than the legend, giving voice to the woman behind the myth.
List of Illustrations viiPreface ixAcknowledgments xixChapter 1 The Legend of Baby Doe 3Chapter 2 Obsessed with Baby Doe: The Legend Expands 40Chapter 3 The Wanton: Sex and Power in the Mining Frontier West 73Chapter 4 The Bad Mother and Good Widow: "Much Madness is divinest Sense" 105Chapter 5 Entering the Dreamworld: Lizzie Tabor Speaks 140Chapter 6 Mining the Dreamworld 181Epilogue: In Her Own Words: "Dreams and Visions" 219Notes 229Bibliography 241Index 247
