Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe TaborBancroft, Caroline
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Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor
Bancroft, Caroline
Baby Doe, -1935
_Baby Doe was a fat adolescent of sixteen years when this photo was
taken in Oshkosh in 1871. She is standing on the verandah, first
figure on the left, surrounded by all the members of her family except
Mark who was not born until the next year. Her mother and father are
standing beside Willard, held on the rocking horse. Her favorite
little sister, Claudia, is seated on the steps, and Philip and Peter
are standing at the right. Mr. George Cameron, her father’s partner,
is posed in the buggy. This fine house, 20 Division Street, burned in
1874._]
[Illustration: MRS. HARVEY DOE
_The Oshkosh Times reported that the wedding of Lizzie McCourt and
Harvey Doe at St. Peter’s was so crowded that people were standing
outside. This photo was taken by A. E. Rinehart in Denver in 1880 at
1637 Larimer Street after their marriage had failed and Baby Doe
wanted a divorce._]
[Illustration: CLEAN-UP AFTER A FLASH FLOOD IN BLACKHAWK
_After Harvey Doe messed up the management of his father’s Fourth of
July mine at Central City, the young couple took rooms in the brick
building above the white circled windows. The trains to Central City
chugged over the trestle almost at their bedside. The building,
unused, still stands; also Jacob Sands’ store, which is just off the
photo to the left._]
[Illustration: HARVEY DOE
_Taken in the late 1890s, this photo came from his step-son, Sam
Kingsley of San Diego. Harvey married a widow with three children in
1893. At the time he was a cigar maker in Oshkosh. Later he became a
hotel detective in Milwaukee. He died in 1921 and lies there with Ida
Doe._]
[Illustration: LIZZIE MOVED TO LEADVILLE’S CLARENDON HOTEL
_The Clarendon was built on Harrison Avenue in 1879 by William Bush.
Soon after, Tabor built the opera house to the left and the two were
connected by a catwalk from the top floor. Tabor had rooms and offices
upstairs in the opera house and could pass quickly and privately
across to Baby Doe’s suite. Jacob Sands’ store was the one with white
awnings downstairs in Tabor’s building. Could the caped figure be
Lizzie?_]
[Illustration: NEW SWEETHEART
_This photo was taken in Leadville in 1880 and was Tabor’s favorite.
He had a frame made for it of the finest minted silver from the
Matchless mine and kept the photo on his dressing table. In the ’90s,
he borrowed money on his treasure to buy groceries, but died before it
was redeemed._]
[Illustration: AUGUSTA]
[Illustration: BABY DOE]
[Illustration: HORACE
THE TABOR TRIANGLE
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