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William "Lucky Bill" B. Thorington
Gold Rush Era Gambler Makes Fortune in West With Thimblerig
Late 1840s-1858 A list of Western United States’ gamblers would be incomplete without William “Lucky Bill” B. Thorington.* A thimblerig master, he plied his craft in the Western mining camps and towns from Sacramento to…