J. Frank Norris-Top O’Hill Casino-Lew Jenkins and the Texas Oil Rich.
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Top O’ Hill Casino was taking in over a half a million dollars on weekends In the depth of the Great Depression while Las Vegas was but a dusty crossroad in Nevada.
Waymark Code: WM7D75
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/08/2009
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It was during the Roaring Twenties that Sinclair Lewis came to Fort Worth, Texas to study the controversial Baptist minister J. Frank Norris and his fundamentalist movement and wrote the Nobel Prize winning book Elmer Gantry in 1930. A film was made in 1960 starring Burt Lancaster and won five Oscars. Grantland Rice, one of the greatest sports writers of the golden era of boxing wrote of Lew Jenkins; “He is a product of Texas cow towns, the plains and the army and comes on as tough and rugged as any of the brawling champions of the past.
ISBN Number: 0967446023
Author(s): Jim Gatewood
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