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Gazette on the street...
Since the heavyweight fight last weekend,
what are your feelings about pro boxing in general?
Newport Beach Pahrump Santa Rosa Pahrump Pahrump
LARS LEMMINGE--Business CHARLES SIMMONS --
owner -- "I'm a real boxing fan. I Retired -- "I still think it is a nice
think what happened was very sport as long as it stays clean. As
disgraceful and think he did itout long as we can geep corruption
of frustration, but he should be out of it. It's a good sport."
punished."
TOM REIER -- Wine salesman
-- "I've followed boxing all my
life. They need to get rid of Don
King. I don't think it's the fault of
the boxers. They are highly
trained athletes. Management and
regulation of boxing is where
some government attention
should be focused. Tyson is a
creep."
AMELIA WOOD -- Teacher
aid -- "I think there should be
tougher referees. There should
be tougher rules."
JERRY LUCAS -- Retired
showbiz -- "It is the biggest joke
in this country. If you don't have
the fight promoter you never get
anywhere."
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Women prospectors focus on new publication
by Phillip 1. Earl
Nevada Historical Society
"g"l here is nothing new in the world but the history we don't know," President
I Harry Truman once remarked. What is new now is a book on a subject
I heretofore unex-
plored, woman prospec-
tors: "A Mine of Her Own:
Woman Prospectors in the
American West, 1850-
1950," by Sally Zanjani.
Published by the Uni-
versity of Nebraska
Press, the book is cur-
rently available from the
Nevada Historical Soci-
ety, 1650 N. Virginia St.,
Reno, Nev., 89503, at a
cost of $32.50 plus $2.50
postageand handling for
of many a writer, this one included.
Covering the lives of some 13 women who experienced the hardships of life
on the mining frontier
and making brief men-
tion of at least 100 oth-
ers for whom there was
insufficient material to
flesh out a lighter ac-
count, the author fo-
cuses upon questions
which were asked at the
time and are of interest
to readers today.
Who were they?
How did they come to
take to the deserts and
mountains with gold
mail orders, pan, pick hammer and
She will also be sign- burro? What was their
ing her new book at the relationship with men
Nevada Historical in the same line ofwork?
Society's Ice Cream So- Marital status?Didthey
cial and Craft Show Sat- prosper?
urday, July 19 at the Reno Chronicling the Cali-
museum. Alice "Happy Days" Diminy and her burros in the Nevada desert c.1910, fornia Gold Rush from
The author has previ- 1848 and beyond, the
ously published a biog- photo by Nevada Historical Society Klondike at the turn of
raphy of her father, George Springmeyer, an interpretative work on desert the century and Nevada's Tonopah-Goldfield period, 1900-10, the author sets
frontiersman Jack Longstreet and a social history of Goldfield. forth a new paradigm for the study of mining in the West and adds new elements
In 1994 The Nevada Historical Society published a collection of her to the ongoing debate on the nature of women's contributions to history.
stories and essays, entitled "Ghost Dance Winter and Other Tales of the All future work on this facet of our past will begin with this pioneering study.
Frontier." Be sure your library includes a copy.
In the present work on women, she again demonstrates a sharp eye for For further information, call the Nevada Historical Society in Reno at (702)
detail and a keen ability to bring a character to life, which makes her the envy 688-1191.
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