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Into the ramshackle office of Banker George S. Nixon in tiny Winnemucca, Nev. around the turn of the century stalked a 6-ft. cowboy named George Wingfield. Not yet 21, Buckaroo Wingfield had just arrived from Arkansas via Oregon, had not a penny. He tossed a diamond ring on the desk, asked for a loan. "I'm not running a hock-shop!" snapped...
Staked by two hard-pressed prospectors m the winter of 1935 in Nevada's Slumbering Hills northwest of Winnemucca was a gold claim now known as the Jumbo Mine. For $10,000-$500 down-the Jumbo was sold a few months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group...
...Born: at Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., Sept. 13. 1874. Start in life: cowboy. Career: in 1875 his parents settled near Flagstaff. Ariz. When he was 12. his father's cattle business ceased to prosper. Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter. At 18 he got the job of turnkey at the Flagstaff County Jail, subsequently becoming a deputy sheriff. A spell at the Stockton (Calif.) Business College fitted him for the law. Aged 21, he was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Two years later he became Speaker...
...trouble. Banker Wingfield is a tall, powerful man with a shock of black hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall...
Despatches from Nevada related the discovery, in mountainy canyons near Winnemucca, of extensive deposits of opals, those iridescent gems, glowing blue, green, yellow, pink and deep red, for which the world has previously depended chiefly upon mines in Hungary, Mexico, Honduras, Australia. Geologists reported that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most...