There is no more Dramatic story of the old west than the story of Baby Doe Controversial wife of Horace Tabor,
Tabor was a silver mine owner in the days of the Colorado gold and silver booms of the 19th century.
Despite wealth that allowed her to live a lifestyle that was beyond lavish, she died in 1935, penniless and alone in Leadville, Colorado.
She froze to death while living in a mine shack of the famous Matchless mine, which in its heyday produced $10,000 worth of silver ore per day.
Elizabeth and Horace Tabor are the subject of an American opera, "The Ballad of Baby Doe.
Here she is represented in a collage of leaves