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Miner

Miner at Bear Claw Diggings in Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory,[1] in 1877. (November 17, 1837 – May 25, 1908)[2]

In May of 1877,[2] the miner and several of his friends from Bear Claw and Cold Creek Diggings collected $10,000 to wager on Madame Pompey's Mystery Man against Tony Cadiz's boxer, Battling Kreuger, at two-to-one odds. The bet tapped Cadiz, but Coral Stacey offered to put the Golden Nugget Saloon up as security to cover the bet. When Bret Maverick stepped in as Pompey's Mystery Man and beat Kreuger in the match, Cadiz lost his saloon to the miner and his partners in the wager.[1]

See: Stampede