Gold Digger
The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
by Rebecca Rosenberg
DOUBLE GOLD for GOLD DIGGER! 2020 IBPA and IPPY Awards for fiction!
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 US Senator, and married Baby Doe at the US capitol with President Arthur in attendance. Though Baby Doe Tabor was renowned for her beauty, her fashion, and even 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, Oscar Wilde, Lily Langtry, opera star Emma Abbott. Discover how the Tabors navigated the worlds of scandal, greed, wealth, power, and politics in the wild days of western mining.
REVIEW
5 out of 5
This was an excellent historical fiction (with a strong female lead). We all know women haven’t always been treated the greatest throughout history, and this focuses on one woman just trying to make her way during the Colorado silver boom. Rosenberg does an excellent job bringing the historical setting to life, and I have no doubt that hours upon hours of research went into writing this. Baby Doe might not be what you expect, but you have to respect her determination and grit. Highly recommend!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Rosenberg is a triple-gold award-winning author of MADAME POMMERY and CHAMPAGNE WIDOWS. Rebecca is a lavender farmer, champagne geek, champagne tour guide, and cocktail creator for Breathless Wines. She is the moderator of Breathless Bubbles & Books and American Historical Novels.
Rebecca writes novels about history’s real-life women of substance who made an indelible mark on the world. Her latest novel begins a series about the true champagne widows, the first of whom was Veuve Clicquot. (Veuve is French for widow.)
Rebecca is a University of Colorado alumni and holds a Stanford University novel-writing certificate. Her novels have garnered many awards including IBPA, IPPY, and starred Publisher Weekly reviews for her novels, THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. LONDON (Lake Union 2018) and GOLD DIGGER, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor (Lion Heart 2019). As lavender farmer and founder of the largest lavender products manufacturer in America, Rebecca’s new book is LAVENDER FIELDS OF AMERICA.
Rebecca has researched the CHAMPAGNE WIDOWS novels through a decade of trips to the Champagne region of France, consulting with champagne historians and champagne wineries for delicious exploration.