ELIZABETH NELLIS MCCOURT "BABY DOE" TABOR
The whole story in four 60-minute award winning videos
Volume I - Horace and Augusta - 1830-1878
Rare, never before published photos and "on-location" live video takes you to the original Tabor farm in Holland, Vermont and the actual building where Horace was born. Then it's on westward... Learn about Tabor's early political activities in "bleeding Kansas" and listen to Augusta talk about her 1st trip to Kansas... (quoted from her memoires)... and then into Colorado's high country.
Volume II - Elizabeth McCourt "Baby" Doe - 1854-1880
It was 1878 in Leadville, and Horace and Augusta were about to become millionaires overnight. However their 19 year long marriage was suffering. Meanwhile, a young blue-eyed beauty from Oshkosh, Wisconsin was also having difficulties with her brand new marriage to Harvey Doe in nearby Central City, Colorado. Learn about what would become one of the nations biggest scandals...
Volume III - Wealth, Politics and Scandal - 1880-1883
Horace and Augusta were millionaires, but their marriage was in ruins, and a blue eyed "Baby" Doe was ready to take the place of Augusta with little regard to the public scandal already taking place... but neither was Augusta ready to let go. "...Now you have your Senateship which you deserted me for. And when your month is out come home... or I will come to you..."
Volume IV - The Best of Times Demands Repentance - 1883-1935
Over the next ten years the Tabors squandered over $10,000,000.00, but then came the silver crash, and by 1898 they were destitute. Baby was left alone and penniless with her two daughters upon the death of Horace in 1898. Both daughters eventually left their mother in Leadville, living alone in the supply shack at the Matchless Mine in a self-imposed solitude until her death in 1935.