Baby Doe Tabor reigned as Colorado’s ... off bogeymen with her shotgun and by newspapering windows to stop peepers chasing rumors that her $10,000 wedding dress and $75,000 wedding necklace lay ...

Mining millionaire Horace Tabor was freshly divorced when he wed Elizabeth “Baby Doe” McCourt in 1883. The only thing more shocking than the marriage was McCourt’s silk dress, which had a low (at ...