Baby Doe Tabor

Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor
Mine Owner
1854 - 1935
Inducted 1985

Elizabeth “Baby Doe" Tabor was the beautiful and legendary second wife of mining speculator Horace Tabor.

Elizabeth Tabor’s riches-to-rags story has been committed to film, opera, and literature. In 1883, Horace created a scandal when he divorced his first wife Augusta, and married “Baby Doe." The Tabor mines, including the famous “Matchless Mine” in Leadville made millions of dollars, but the Silver Crash of 1893 destroyed the couple’s wealth. Horace died destitute, and Baby Doe became a penniless widow. Tabor spent the last years of her life living at the “Matchless Mine,” while unsuccessfully seeking investors. After a 1935 snow storm, friends found her frozen to death in the shack at the mine site.

I am all alone in Leadville.” — “Baby Doe” Tabor, 1914