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Baby Doe Tabor

Sep 16, 2021

Our record this week is a mineral survey plat approved Sept. 13, 1879, featuring the Matchless Mine in Leadville, Colorado. A dilapidated cabin on the Matchless Mine once owned by her silver magnate husband, Horace Tabor, was the final home of the famous Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor, whose up-and-down life's story became the subject of an opera and later a Hollywood movie. Read more on ArcGIS Story Maps.

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