The Legend Of Baby Doe

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Term Paper Title	The Legend Of Baby Doe
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	5.86

The Legend of Baby Doe
by John Burke
copyright 1974 & 1989

     John Burke, a former newspaperman, has published biographies,
mysteries, popular histories, and juvenile biographies.  He has written
biographies on Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, George Thomas, and many
others.

     Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Her parents were Irish immigrants and brought fourteen children into the
world, though several children died in birth.  Elizabeth was their fourth
daughter.  Her father, Peter McCourt, was a tailor.
     During years following the Civil War, there was a building boom and a
great demand for lumber.  McCourt had purchased lots all over town for
people to build cottages upon.  However, the Peshtigo fire of October, 1871,
burned over 1,280,000 acres and left more than 1,000 people dead.  This
ended the lumber boom and mcCourt went into debt to the bank.
     Elizabeth loved attention from men when she was a teenager and she
liked to be talked about, even if the talk didn't compliment her.  Her sisters
were jealous of her most of the time.  Even their parents lavished affection on
her.  To put it plainly, Elizabeth was spoiled.  She always went her own way
and damned anyone who tried to stop her.
     After winning an ice skating contest with an incredibly revealing
costume, a man named Harvey Doe began courting her.  Soon after, they
decided to be married.
     There were disapproving glances at the wedding from both mothers.
The wedding was on June 27, 1877.  After honeymooning in Denver,
Colorado for two weeks, they went down to Central City where they met his
father, who was at the time inspecting his gold fields.  Harvey Doe, Sr.
decided to let Harvey work one of his quartz mines in return for a large share
of the profits.  He agreed immediately after his father added that if he made
out good, he would be deeded the mine.
     The Fourth of July mine was out near Dogtown on Quartz Hill.  Mr.
Doe was in no hurry to begin mining, but with the pressures from Elizabeth,
they both soon went to work, side by side.
     After spending all of the money his father had left and all that he had
borrowed from banks, work on the mine subsided.
     Harvey was forced to become a day-laborer at the Bobtail Tunnel.  He
lost that job, but soon got another and sold the Fourth of July mine to more
energetic developers.  Baby Doe, as the miners who worked for her had
nicknamed her, did not like the idea of being a day-laborers wife and did not
mind telling her husb...

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