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all summer. She canned for both the ○ claim. The mountain his claim was on
All in the Family, continued from page 1. Wilsons and us.” And it paid for the ○ is now the James Hardie gypsum mine,
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vacation escape from the heat of Las ○ formerly the Blue Diamond mine, dig-
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drunk and whoop and raise cane, and Vegas. ○ ging some of the purest gypsum in the
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her alone in her tent with her children Another Indian friend was Quejo, a ○ ○ southwest since 1924.
because dad had to work late.” renegade Piaute who allegedly killed ○ ○ Robert was active in Las Vegas’
But the Lakes eventually became more than a dozen prospectors along the ○ ○ growth, aside from contributing 10
friends with the local Indians, particu- Colorado River. “We never thought he youngsters to the population. “Dad was
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larly, Buster and Tweed Wilson, killed all the people they said he did,” ○ ○ a member of the first schoolboard,” said
half-blood adopted sons of Jim Wilson, Ada recalled. “Spud (a brother) thought ○ ○ Emily. “They probably told him he had
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owner of the Sandstone Ranch and now he was a nice guy.” Spud later became more children than anybody else, so he
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called Spring Mountain Ranch. “We a police officer in Boulder City. ○ ○ had to serve on the school board.” He
used to spend our summers at the Wil- Robert Lake’s barber business was ○ ○ ○ helped erect the first tenthouse school
son ranch to get out of the heat,” said thriving but not his prospecting. He did ○ on the Las Vegas creek and the first all-
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Emily, youngest of the Lake family. hit some deposits west of Las Vegas but frame schoolhouse.
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“Mother would go up there and can fruit it wasn’t gold or silver so he sold his ○ ○ ○ In those days stray burros roamed
the streets and were ridden at will by
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Quiz Are you a Westerner? ○ of burro riding and when her father
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○ helped complete the all-frame school-
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b y Chuck Kleber Know what’s True and what’s False. ○ house she took a dare. “Betcha you
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○ won’t ride that there old thing in the
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○ school,” a boy said. “Betcha I will,” re-
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Is anything lower than an eastern tender- ○ plied Olive, and proceeded to spur her
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foot? And why is “Westerner” spelled with a ○ burro through dad’s spanky new school-
capital “W”? Because it is something spe-
cial . . . that’s why. Ever wonder why Holly- house.
wood doesn’t make “Northerns” or The Lake children grew up and scat-
“Southerns” or “Easterns” to answer our ○ tered, but Mr. and Mrs. Lake remained
desire for adventure and romance? Yup, pardner—to be a West- ○ ○ forever Las Vegans. “(Mother) eventu-
erner is to be the best. Now, take this quiz and prove it. ○ ○ ally got so attached to the place that you
couldn’t have run her away,” Alice said.
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“She wasn’t tough when she came here.
(1) Miners sometimes called dynamite sawdust. T F ○
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(2) Potlatch is a word of Chinook origin relating to
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a ceremony of giving. T F
Mr. Lake died in 1932. Mary Ellen,
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(3) Blackleg is a cattle disease. T F ○ ○ whose frail health necessitated the 1904
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(4) Manadero comes from the Spanish word for a popular ○ move, died in 1965 at the age of 95.
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card game with cowboys. T F ○ “The move must have done something
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(5) Eating Irons—a cowboy’s joking reference to branding irons. T F ○ for her,” Olive said. ;
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(6) Naked Possessor was a mountain man who took an ○ ○
Indian maiden for a wife. T F ○ ○
(7) Papago means “Bean People” in this Arizona tribe’s ○ ○ ○
own language. T F ○ ○
(8) When a cowboy says quit the flats he means ○ ○
to leave the area. T F ○ ○
(9) The Apaches drove the Comanches from most of Texas. T F ○ ○
(10) Gullet refers to the loose flesh on the underside of ○ ○ ○
a horse’s neck. T F ○ ○ ○

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