In this episode, I tell you the extraordinary and heartbreaking story of Elizabeth McCourt Tabor, better known as Baby Doe Tabor.

From poverty to glittering wealth in Colorado’s silver boom, and back again to isolation and tragedy, her life reads like a frontier epic. Alongside her husband, Horace Tabor, she rose to become one of the most famous women of the American West.

But when the silver market collapsed, so too did everything they had built. What followed was not just financial ruin, but a decades-long descent into hardship that ended in one of the most haunting deaths in American history.