Skip to content

Soparlo Sports Library

Library of eBook in PDF, ePub, Kindle and Mobi

Menu
  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • DMCA
  • Terms of Use
Menu

The Legend of Baby Doe

The Legend of Baby Doe

Author: John Burke

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 0803261039

Category: History

Page: 248

View: 304

In her pulchritudinous prime Baby Doe was called the Silver Queen of Colorado by journalists and "that shameless hussy" by the proper wives of the men who eyed her. Flirtatious, adventurous, ambitious, Elizabeth McCourt Doe gave everyone a lot to talk about when she met Horace Tabor, the Silver King of Leadville, in 1880. Three years later they were free to legalize their passion. Although thirty years separated them, they were well matched in romantic recklessness. If The Legend of Baby Doe is the lowdown on the high jinks of two public lives, it is also the story of a love that survived spectacularly good times and bad. Before bad times came, Baby and Horace went on a spending spree. They built an opulent opera house in Denver and bought an Italian-ate villa. Baby Doe went out bejeweled and ermined, and sat at home alone, snubbed by the social dragons. John Burke has written about the giddy rise of a bonanza king who dreamed of entering the White House with Baby Doe on his arm and about the disastrous fall they took together. Wiped out by unwise investments and the Panic of 1893, Tabor soon died, leaving Baby Doe and their two daughters penniless. Reportedly, his deathbed order was to "hang on to the Matchless," a played-out mine filled with water. She managed to do that for almost four decades, struggling heroically against loneliness, poverty, and heartbreak, and becoming one of the great legends of the American West.
The Legend of Baby Doe
Language: en
Pages: 248

The Legend of Baby Doe

Authors: John Burke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

In her pulchritudinous prime Baby Doe was called the Silver Queen of Colorado by journalists and "that shameless hussy" by the proper wives of the men who eyed her. Flirtatious, adventurous, ambitious, Elizabeth McCourt Doe gave everyone a lot to talk about when she met Horace Tabor, the Silver King
Baby Doe Tabor
Language: en
Pages: 280

Baby Doe Tabor

Authors: Judy Nolte Temple
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-27 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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
The Ballad of John Latouche
Language: en
Pages: 648

The Ballad of John Latouche

Authors: Howard Pollack
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and librettist. The wit and skill of his lyrics elicited comparisons with the likes of Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, and Cole Porter, but
Moore's the Ballad of Baby Doe
Language: en
Pages:

Moore's the Ballad of Baby Doe

Authors: Burton D. Fisher
Categories: Electronic books
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Books about Moore's the Ballad of Baby Doe
Wild Women of the Old West
Language: en
Pages: 256

Wild Women of the Old West

Authors: Glenda Riley, Richard W. Etulain
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03 - Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine notorious women from the days of boisterous frontier saloons and high-noon showdowns.

New Books

  • Teacher Selection: Evidence-Based Practices
  • The Making of the Inclusive School
  • Asset Protection
  • The Epoch of Bill Wolf II
  • Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty
  • The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
  • The Adventures of Gil Blas
  • One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
  • The Tuscan Secret
  • King of Sun Records 9
  • Automotive NVH Technology
  • Famous & Fun Duets 1
  • Key of Knowledge
  • The Way to Play – Book 1
  • Spatial Pattern in Plankton Communities
  • Christian Anarchist
  • Mediterranean Diet for Two
  • The Collapse of Time
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics
  • Bright Smoke, Cold Fire

Popular Books

  • Simple Disney Songs
  • The Great Big Book of Children's Songs
  • Thinking of You (A Bouquet in a Book)
  • Landon Carter
  • Football Baby
  • Wrecking Ball
  • Cranberry Lake and Wanakena
  • p-i-l-a-t-e-s Instructor Manual Reformer Level 1
  • RHS Rose Notebook
  • Vexing Nature?
  • Healing Back Pain
  • Creative Blogging
  • SAT Premium Study Guide with 7 Practice Tests
  • Practical Guide to Diagnostic Parasitology
  • Concorde: An Icon in the News
  • Alfred'S Basic Piano Library Technic Book 1
  • The First Book of Baritone/Bass Solos
  • MASTERS Magazine Ken Osborne Legacy
  • Boston in Motion
  • The Wheel Of Colors
  • An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding
  • Special Events
  • Queen of Air and Darkness, 3
  • GRMS or Graphical Representation of Model Spaces
  • Molotov: A Biography
  • Julius Caesar
  • Lonely Planet France
  • The Ms Recovery Diet
  • Climbing Days
  • Argumentation Schemes
©2022 Soparlo Sports Library | Built using WordPress and Responsive Blogily theme by Superb