Book Reviews

Gold Digger

Review: Gold Digger by Rebecca Rosenberg. One look at Baby Doe Tabor, and you know she was meant to be a legend of the Wild West and Gilded Age! She was just twenty years old when she came west 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 fell in love with an old married prospector twice her age. Horace Tabor struck the biggest silver vein in history, scandalously divorced his wife, became a U.S. Senator, and married Baby Doe at the U.S. capitol with President Arthur in attendance.  Though Baby Doe Tabor was renowned for her beauty, her fashion, and her philanthropy, she was never welcomed in polite society. Her friends were stars they hired to perform at their Tabor Grand Opera House: Sarah Bernhardt,…