Award-winning author Rebecca Rosenberg grew up in Denver after moving to the Mile High City with her family when she was only five years old. "My dad would take us up into the mountains," says Rosenberg from her current home in the lavender fields of California, "and we'd run around all the gold rush towns, go through mines and graveyards in old ghost towns. We ended up in Central City quite a bit since it was an easy drive from Thornton, and back then — this would have been the 1960s and '70s — Central City still looked a lot like it had in [the 1800s] when it was founded. I just loved it."

With those seminal trips up into the once-thriving mining communities in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Rosenberg's admiration for Baby Doe Tabor was born. "I think every little girl, if they're told

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