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4 unusual facts about Goldfield


Andriza Mircovich

Attorney J.E. McNamara argued to the Nevada Supreme Court that Sanders unfairly prejudiced the jury with the statement: "Why, gentlemen of the jury, if you cannot pronounce by your verdict the death penalty upon this defendant, I say, let's resurrect old Casey that killed Mrs. Hislop in Goldfield and let him live again."

J. Curtis Counts

Counts was born on August 2, 1915, in Goldfield, Colorado, where his father was a carpenter, and where his grandfather had mined gold.

Louis Whitford Bond

On the opening of Goldfield, Nevada, Bond was highly successful as a mining engineer and became financially interested in a number of mines.

Vincent Saint John

In November 1907 St. John was shot in Goldfield, Nevada by a "conservative" in the Western Federation of Miners.


Alunite

In the United States it is found in the San Juan district of Colorado; Goldfield, Nevada; the ghost town of Alunite, Utah near Marysvale; and Red Mountain near Patagonia, Arizona.

August Gillhaus

In 1908, Gillhaus was substituted for the original nominee, “Morrie” Preston, a miner who was arrested on murder charges during a citywide strike in Goldfield, Nevada, in 1907.

Earp family

Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 Hartford, Kentucky – October 19, 1905 Goldfield, Nevada)

Goldfeld

Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada, was added to the Nevada State Register of Historic Places and was part of the scenery of many Ghost TV shows and movies

Goldfield Hotel

It is also featured in the film Cherry 2000 (1987) and the film Ghosts of Goldfield (2007).

L. californica

Lasthenia californica, the California goldfield, a flowering plant species native to California and Oregon

L. maritima

Lasthenia maritima, the maritime goldfield, a flowering plant species

Lakeland, Queensland

1873 in association with Christie Palmerston they prospected on the newly discovered (1873) Palmer goldfield, shortly thereafter with Robert Sefton finding traces of gold on the Batavia River (now known as Wenlock River).

Morobe Goldfield

The Morobe goldfield is in Morobe, Papua New Guinea, and mined gold.

Orra E. Monnette

In 1906, the elder Monnette struck a significant gold vein in the previously thought tapped out Mohawk Mine, Tonopah, Nevada (near Goldfield, Nevada).

Tyaughton Creek

In the 1930s, times when the Bridge River Country was as much known for big-game hunting as for gold mining, Charlie Cunningham, a guide and multi-faceted entrepreneur in the goldfield hub of Gold Bridge first promoted the idea of protecting the region north of Gun Creek and west of Tyaughton and south of Relay, as a wildlife preserve and scenic wilderness treasure, and in the process became a pioneering wildlife cinematographer.

Vaux-le-Vicomte

Inspired by Vaux-le-Vicomte, a similar chateau, the Champ d'Or Estate, was built in Hickory Creek, Texas by Alan and Shirley Goldfield in 2002.


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