| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4 | The History Cooperative

*Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin*. By Judy Nolte Temple. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx + 260 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)
In her attempt to dispel many long-held beliefs concerning the legendary Baby Doe Tabor, Judy Nolte Temple provides several new and fresh readings into the life of one of Colorado's most-renowned frontier women. Baby Doe Tabor falls clearly within the American Studies tradition—it is far reaching, far ranging, interdisciplinary, fun to read, and highly speculative. The author relies heavily on over two thousand fragments of evidence, entitled Baby Doe's "Dreams and Visions." These recordings of her day and nighttime imaginings were scrawled on scraps of paper and stored in shoeboxes.	1
The most-successful aspects of Temple's book include her historiographic essay, her discussion of widowhood in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century America, and her intriguing attempts to challenge the almost universally held belief that Lizzie Tabor was thoroughly insane by the end of her life.	. . .

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