Donna Baier Stein guest blogger on Heroes, Heroines and History

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Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor was a fiercely independent woman who bucked all her era’s social expectations.In 1866, 12-year-old Lizzie McCourt watched a fire consume her father’s tailoring business and home in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Vowing to rebuild her family’s fortune, she later married Harvey Doe, the mayor’s son, and followed him and her father-in-law to Colorado, where Harvey Doe, Sr., had gifted them a mine called The Fourth of July.

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The Saint Ann’s Review published Donna Baier Stein’s story, “The Sweet Perfume of Somewhere Else” Fall 2015 issue