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I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar -- Baby Doe TaborType: Mystery | Size: Other 
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| Terrain: By: Susan B. Anthony @ | Hide Date: 08/26/2020 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 46.817 W105° 08.626 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0 
August 26, 2020 marks the 100th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. This simply stated Amendment -- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex -- required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920. Between 1878, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and August 18, 1920, when it was ratified, champions of voting rights for women worked tirelessly, using a variety of strategies. Some pursued a strategy of passing suffrage acts in each state — Colorado was the first state to ratify votes for women in 1893. Coloradoans then turned their activism towards a national referendum. They persisted and 100 years later we celebrate their sacrifices.
Celebrating Elizabeth McCourt Tabor (1854-1935) better known as "Baby Doe." After Horace Tabor, owner of a successful silvermine obtained a, he and Baby Doe were secretly married in September of 1882, and officially married later in March of 1883. Despite the fact they were legally married, Baby Doe was still shunned by supporters of Horace's first wife, and she never did have a woman friend in Denver society. Even though she was snubbed, she continued to donate office space for the Suffrage cause. In 1886 Tabor paid $54,000 for a pretentious mansion at Thirteenth and Sherman in Denver. During the silver panic of 1893, however, Tabor’s financial empire collapsed; Horace soon died and she became a penniless widow. She grieved for the remainder of her life, and in 1935 friends found her frozen to death, her feet wrapped in rags, in a shed at the Matchless Mine in which she lived alone. A kaleidoscope of legends surrounds “Baby Doe,” whose amazing rags-to-riches-to-rags life story was immortalized in an opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe. This is a field puzzle. To obtain the coordinates to the final (and a bonus hint) enter the Last Name of Anna & Beatrice below. You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
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