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Jessup's book is short, but all his characters seem clearly drawn. Or, more accurately, we know them all--probably because they all appeared in The Gunfight at Dry Gulch on the late show the other night. Lancey is The Fastest Gun in the West. The knot of poker dilettantes who watch The Game are the drunks who scamper out the door of the Golden Horseshoe Saloon before the showdown gunfight...
...around in motor boats. Twelve deep-sea boats stand ready-at $30 to $50 a day-to bring in that trophy for the game room. The bungalow that rented for $30 a month brings as much as $250, and a one-bedroom house on the fashionable hillside called "Gringo Gulch" goes for at least $10,000-still a bargain by Acapulco standards. There is neon, a supermarket, a nightclub. The new Posada
...archaeological treasures or two weeks exploring a remote fishing village such as Puerto Vallarta (less than 1,000 rooms) on the West Coast. So popular is Puerto Vallarta now that the hotels are 90% full throughout the summer, and one part of town is popularly known as "Gringo Gulch...
...Some two miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh lies a stretch of land called Panther Hollow, more colloquially known as "The Gulch." The jagged, 1,000-ft.-wide ravine runs 150 ft. deep and a mile long, an ugly supergully slashing between the green campuses of Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad rumbles along its bottom, flanked by a few slum houses, construction storage yards, truck depots and a junkyard. Most cities would give it up as a desolate though semiserviceable eyesore. Not Pittsburgh, which has announced plans to convert the 75-acre Panther...
...because fewer skiers and longer hours mean more skiing and more fatigue. At Mammoth Mountain, this may lead to an added pleasure. Skiers tuck wine bottles under their arms, trek ten miles down the valley to Hot Creek, where 100° water from underground springs pours into a wide gulch. There they can loll the rest of the day away, soaking and sipping beneath snow-covered slopes...