Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
TITLE: Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
PUBLISHER: LION HEART PUBLISHING
PUB DATE: 28th MAY 2019
SYNOPSIS:
One look at Baby Doe and you know she was meant to be a legend! She was just twenty years old when she came to Colorado to work a gold mine with her new husband. Little did she expect that she’d be abandoned and pregnant and left to manage the gold mine alone. But that didn’t stop her!
She moved to Leadville and fell in love with a married prospector, twice her age. Horace Tabor struck the biggest silver vein in history, divorced his wife and married Baby Doe. Though his new wife was known for her beauty, her fashion, and even her philanthropy, she was never welcomed in polite society.
Discover how the Tabors navigated the worlds of wealth, power, politics, and scandal in the wild days of western mining.
“Rosenberg’s rollicking Western adventure strikes gold with a gutsy, good-hearted spitfire of a heroine and action aplenty.”
—THELMA ADAMS, bestselling author of The Last Woman Standing
Gold Digger tells the true story of Lizzie “Baby Doe” Tabor, a beautiful young woman who in 1878 marries the son of a wealthy miner in order to save her family from penury. Shrewd and stubborn, Lizzie fights back-biting Victorian society, wins and loses vast fortunes, and bests conniving politicians in her larger-than-life story. A twisting tale worthy of Mark Twain, with a big-hearted heroine at the center.
—MARTHA CONWAY, author of The Underground River
THOUGHTS/REVIEW:
An Amazing Historical Fiction deserving of all the stars!
I love Rebecca Rosenberg! I enjoyed The Secret Life of Mrs London, and this one was just as amazing and a 5 star read for me.
Gold Digger is a wonderful story about a beautiful young woman, originally from Oshkosh Wisconsin Lizzy “Baby Doe” Tabor, a legend in her own right, and a woman well ahead of her time. From a very poor family, she marries into money and immediately leaves her struggling family to trek the Wild West and try to strike gold in Colorado, a mine given as a wedding present.
The harsh conditions working in the mine leaves her husband to go back home to his sheltered and privileged life, leaving and abandoning Baby Doe pregnant and alone to manage the mine. Through some exceptional friendships she has made, her life saved many times, she survives many ups and downs.
Horace Tabor has been unlucky in the mining prospects, and became an owner of the general store. Not accepting that as his lot in life, and against the better judgment of his wife and family, he continues to secretly prospect and one day had a lucky strike in discovering one of the biggest silver vein in history.
It was such a delight to learn the amazing history of the western mining and the details of how people then navigated the hardships, the role of the Chinese in these dangerous mines, how success goes hand in hand with wealth and politics, their philanthropic activities and societies that developed hotels and opera houses.
What a delightful read and a Historical Fiction at its finest!! My attention was captured from the very first page!!
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
2019 Gold Medal IPPY Winner, world's largest book competition!
THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. LONDON
and
GOLD DIGGER, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
“Rosenberg’s rollicking Western adventure strikes gold with a gutsy, good-hearted spitfire of a heroine and action aplenty.”
—THELMA ADAMS, bestselling author of The Last Woman Standing
Gold Digger tells the true story of Lizzie “Baby Doe” Tabor, a beautiful young woman who in 1878 marries the son of a wealthy miner in order to save her family from penury. Shrewd and stubborn, Lizzie fights back-biting Victorian society, wins and loses vast fortunes, and bests conniving politicians in her larger-than-life story. A twisting tale worthy of Mark Twain, with a big-hearted heroine at the center.
—MARTHA CONWAY, author of The Underground River
GOLD DIGGER, the remarkable Baby Doe Tabor.
1878, Colorado. When Lizzie Doe’s family loses everything in a fire, the twenty-year-old is forced to marry and go west to prospect a gold mine in Colorado, hoping to send money home to her parents. Miners, unaccustomed to such delicate beauty, nickname her Baby Doe, after a newborn deer.
But Baby Doe proves herself tougher than they imagine when she finds herself abandoned, pregnant and running the mine alone. Her pluck gains the admiration of Silver King Horace Tabor, married and twice her age, and running for U.S. Senator. In Tabor, Baby Doe finds devotion and true passion. When scandal and economic ruin threatens Tabor’s life, Baby Doe must make a painful choice.
Baby Doe Tabor was a real-life, deeply complex heroine, rising and falling and rising again with beguiling grit and stubborn spirit.
Rebecca grew up in Colorado exploring old mines, ghost towns and honky-tonks with her family, sparking her life-long love of the Rocky Mountains and obsession with the Tabors. Now, Rebecca lives and writes on her lavender farm in Sonoma, California.
Rebecca’s other books include: THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. LONDON, LAVENDER FIELDS OF AMERICA, CHAMPAGNE WIDOWS (2021)
Rebecca Rosenberg
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THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. LONDON
and
GOLD DIGGER, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
“Rosenberg’s rollicking Western adventure strikes gold with a gutsy, good-hearted spitfire of a heroine and action aplenty.”
—THELMA ADAMS, bestselling author of The Last Woman Standing
Gold Digger tells the true story of Lizzie “Baby Doe” Tabor, a beautiful young woman who in 1878 marries the son of a wealthy miner in order to save her family from penury. Shrewd and stubborn, Lizzie fights back-biting Victorian society, wins and loses vast fortunes, and bests conniving politicians in her larger-than-life story. A twisting tale worthy of Mark Twain, with a big-hearted heroine at the center.
—MARTHA CONWAY, author of The Underground River
GOLD DIGGER, the remarkable Baby Doe Tabor.
1878, Colorado. When Lizzie Doe’s family loses everything in a fire, the twenty-year-old is forced to marry and go west to prospect a gold mine in Colorado, hoping to send money home to her parents. Miners, unaccustomed to such delicate beauty, nickname her Baby Doe, after a newborn deer.
But Baby Doe proves herself tougher than they imagine when she finds herself abandoned, pregnant and running the mine alone. Her pluck gains the admiration of Silver King Horace Tabor, married and twice her age, and running for U.S. Senator. In Tabor, Baby Doe finds devotion and true passion. When scandal and economic ruin threatens Tabor’s life, Baby Doe must make a painful choice.
Baby Doe Tabor was a real-life, deeply complex heroine, rising and falling and rising again with beguiling grit and stubborn spirit.
Rebecca grew up in Colorado exploring old mines, ghost towns and honky-tonks with her family, sparking her life-long love of the Rocky Mountains and obsession with the Tabors. Now, Rebecca lives and writes on her lavender farm in Sonoma, California.
Rebecca’s other books include: THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. LONDON, LAVENDER FIELDS OF AMERICA, CHAMPAGNE WIDOWS (2021)
Rebecca Rosenberg
Website: http://www.rebecca-rosenberg.com
Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.rose...
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rebeccarosen...
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/rebec...
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/rebecca7487...
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