From a tale of rags to riches to rags, to the only known female buffalo soldier, seven unique stories are on display at the Center for Colorado Women's History.

Opera del Sol will present “The Ballad of Baby Doe,” a musical telling of Tabor’s story, in two performances at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

“Baby Doe,” daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde loveliness, she quickly cast off her impecunious young husband.

The Ballad of Baby Doe was commissioned and premiered by Colorado’s Central City Opera, with a score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Douglas Moore. The work debuted at New York City Opera in ...

Baby Doe’s story ended 35 years later, when she froze to death, alone and destitute, in a cabin near the Matchless Mine, in her early 80s. The House with the Eye Museum: it’s always watching.

Horace A.W. Tabor (1830-1899) & Baby Doe Tabor (1854-1935) Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Wheat Ridge Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images Horace A.W. Tabor struck it rich in Colorado ...

The woman was Elizabeth McCourt Doe Tabor, and she was the widow of Horace Tabor, who during the early 1880s had been the wealthiest man in Colorado. Elizabeth, known in her heyday as “Baby Doe,” was ...

Leyna Gabriele, a lyric coloratura soprano who became a fan-club idol for playing the title role in the first production of the tragic rags-to-riches-to-rags opera “The Ballad of Baby Doe ...

Tabor became the richest man in Colorado, and this attracted 20-year-old Baby Doe, who blew into Leadville in 1881, established herself as Tabor’s mistress and persuaded him to divorce his wife.