The Legend Of Baby Doe
by John Burke
copyright 1974 & 1989
John Burke, a former newspaperman, has published biographies,
mysteries, popular histories, and juvenile biographies. He has written
biographies on Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, George Thomas, and many
others.
Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Her parents were Irish immigrants and brought fourteen children into the
world, though several children died in birth. Elizabeth was their fourth
daughter. Her father, Peter McCourt, was a tailor.
During years following the Civil War, there was a building boom and
a great demand for lumber. McCourt had purchased lots all over town for
people to build cottages upon. However, ...
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to stop her.
After winning an ice skating contest with an incredibly revealing
costume, a man named Harvey Doe began courting her. Soon after, they
decided to be married.
There were disapproving glances at the wedding from both mothers.
The wedding was on June 27, 1877. After honeymooning in Denver, Colorado
for two weeks, they went down to Central City where they met his father,
who was at the time inspecting his gold fields. Harvey Doe, Sr. decided to
let Harvey work one of his quartz mines in return for a large share of the
profits. He agreed immediately after his father added that if he made out
good, he would be deeded the mine.
The Fourth of July mine was out near Dogtown on Quartz Hill. Mr.
Doe was in no hurry to begin mining, but with the pressures from Elizabeth,
they both soon went to work, side by side.
After spending all of the money his father had left and all that he
had borrowed from banks, work on the mine subsided.
Harvey was forced to become a day-laborer ...
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promising because, after all, a mistress could become a wife.
In the time that followed, Horace enjoyed the comfort of Baby,
especially when the miners that worked for him went on strike and demanded
more money and more working hours. When it was all over, the miners were
forced to go back to work at the usual $3.00 a day with 12 hour days.
A short time afterwards, Ex-President Ulysses S. Grant came to visit
Leadville. Tabor was quick to take control of the festivities that were in
honor of the Ex-President and the first to volunteer to show him around the
City. It was said that Grant got tired of listening to Tabor talk one
night and fled to his own hotel across the ...
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