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High Roller Bucks the Tiger in Tonopah

1907 A faro game with a $50 limit (at least $1,200 today) was underway in the Tonopah Club on a Thursday night in February. Colonel Abe F. Brown, one of the three proprietors of this…

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Gambling Defeat Leads to Calamity

1915-1935 James “Jimmy” Sidney Rogan, an active student and football player, was well liked by the principal of his high school in Tonopah, Nevada, a mining boom town halfway between Las Vegas and Reno. In…

Did You Know? Games / Races: Faro George "Tex" Rickard Goldfield Hotel (Goldfield, NV) Nevada Quick Facts The Northern (Tonopah, NV) Wyatt Earp

Quick Fact - Earp Myths

1905 Folklore has it that Wyatt Earp was the pit boss at The Northern in Goldfield, Nevada for George “Tex” Rickard, the proprietor. But it likely is false, according to Nevada historians, Jeffrey Kintop and Guy…

Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Robbery / Theft / Embezzling Did You Know? Games / Races: Faro Quick Facts Tonopah Club (Tonopah, NV) Tonopah--Nevada

Quick Fact - Tunnel Thief

1904 An industrious individual tunneled beneath the Tonopah Club in Tonopah, Nevada, cut a hole through the casino floor and stole $1,000 in gold and silver from the box under the faro table – all…

Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Robbery / Theft / Embezzling Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Shooting Desert Club (Tonopah, NV) Gambling It Really Happened Nevada State Prison (Carson City, NV) Tonopah--Nevada

Unforeseen Perils of Gambling

1920 It was 3 a.m. on a Monday. About 15 men were gambling in the Desert Club. One who’d been there all night, sitting alone, watching and waiting to make his move was George Strickland.…

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Loophole in the Law

1955 When Nevada legislators legalized gambling in 1931, they didn’t consider one significant caveat. The omission came to light in January 1955 when an industrious Las Vegas casino patron was arrested for using Mexican 10…