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  • Burros Had Much To Do With Building of the West

    11/24/2021 7:03:13 AM PST · by mairdie · 52 replies
    Personal ^ | Nov 19, 1922 | Jack Bell
    I've spent the last few months putting together a book on my grandfather, Jack Bell, a prospector who won and lost fortunes from Alaska down to Mexico - naturalist, angler, newspaper and magazine writer, law enforcement. Book's too big. So while I'm figuring out what to do about that, thought I'd put up the occasional story of his to see if people find them interesting. Major categories that might interest you are prospecting/naturalist, fishing, the first air mail pilots, and crime.
  • The Fight With Ore Thieves in the Depths of the Independence

    11/29/2021 1:08:24 PM PST · by mairdie · 15 replies
    Denver Post ^ | October 6, 1902 | Jack Bell
    Another of grandfather Jack Bell's stories. This one is about a 1902 gunfight grandfather was in at the bottom of a mine. Later on he was, at various times, a game warden, Deputy Sheriff of Gunnison County, Colorado and Deputy Sheriff of Verdi, Nevada. The quotes in the story come from testimonials put out to get people to buy stock in his 1906 Jack Bell Gold Mining Company when he started a gold rush in Buckskin, Nevada.