Word: goldfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Kansas City, Tex Rickard was a Texas cowpuncher at 10, a town marshal at 23. Then he went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay...
...gust of wind blew out the storm doors and plate glass front of the Goldfield Hotel at Tonopah. Nobody cared. There was a fresh "strike" at Barrel Springs, five miles from Weepah. The rushers swerved thence, eddied back, chattered, milled around, boasted, dreamed...
...crowd collected and dogged their steps wherever they went around Tonopah. They kept their mouths shut until a train from Los Angeles pulled in, bringing the desert-bitten figure of Frank Horton, whom most of the Southwest remembers as one of the big win-and-losers in the Goldfield rush of 1902. One of the boys was his son, Frank Horton Jr. Tonopah sizzled with excitement while these two and young Horton's buddy, Leonard Traynor, shut themselves up for a talk...
...York law school, and was sent out as attorney for the mining railroad and other interests of the Stokes and Phelps estates. There he became partner of " the famous Jim Butler," who discovered the Tonopah gold and silver field, and later had a hand in founding the Goldfield mines. So he is not a newcomer to the silver industry...
...Goldfield, Nev., was made of gold dust in a mining boom of 1904. Last week, catching fire, it flashed a tiny epitaph across the sporting pages. It was famous-Shelbylike-for the Gans-Wilson fight in 1906. Previous to the fire, the inhabitants pointed with pride to a certain Main Street corner where stood the saloon in which Tex Rickard "made his start...