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The Magnificent Rube, EPUB eBook

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"From the moment he was born, Tex Rickard seemed to be wherever the action was.

He entered the world as a posse was riding by- the posse was after the James brothers.

Rickard became a trail cowboy at eleven, and a town marshal in his early twenties.

He was up in the Yukon Valley, working in gambling houses, two years before the Klondike gold rush started; there he prospected, made and lost several fortunes.

As a sports promoter, he arranged title fights between Joe Gans and Battling Nelson in 1906 and Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in 1910.

He gained fame by creating-with the collaboration of Jack Dempsey-the world's first ''million-dollar gate'' (Dempsey fought Carpentier in 1921 at Jersey City to a paid crowd of 77,328.) Rickard made more on the bout than either of the fighters."

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