Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Wisconsin. She moved west, married a man named Harvey Doe, and came to be called "Baby" by the miners in Central City, Colorado. After attracting the attention of wealthy Horace Tabor of Leadville, she began a very public affair with Tabor ending with marriage in a private ceremony in 1882. A lavish lifestyle ended after fifteen years with loss of the Tabor fortune in the Silver Crash and Horace's death in 1899. Baby Doe spent the last thirty-five years of her life in a small cabin outside the Matchless Mine in Leadville. "In Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen, Joyce Lohse has accomplished something remarkable. She has retold Colorado history¿s most famous soap opera in terms appropriate for all ages and has also presented the notorious Baby Doe as a sympathetic character. Rare is the biography that neither demonizes nor romanticizes Elizabeth Tabor. By focusing on her determination and her devotion to her family, Lohse humanizes this often misrepresented folk heroine." ¿ Debra Faulkner, Author, Brown Palace Hotel Historian, Metropolitan State College of Denver faculty