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RAWHIDE, NEVADA
Rawhide, named for the hide and tail of a cow
fastened to a post with a tin can affixed to a crude
sign: DEPOSIT MAIL HERE FOR RAWHIDE, had
its beginning in late 1907 when population grew to
10,000 boomers in 6 months. Autos brought 400
people a day to this boom town. By mid 1908
there were 1500 buildings. Three newspapers, three
banks, six theaters, telegraph and telephone
service, electric service, refrigeration plant, ninety
saloons, one church, half a mile of bawdry houses
with 500 chippies working both sides of the street.
This was Rawhide when the fire struck on Sept. 4,
1908. In a short time not a building stood in the
nine square blocks that were the center of town.
Tex Rickard ordered material for a new Northern
Saloon before the fire reached his fabulous flesh-
pot. Such was the spirit of the people of
Rawhide... M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
O & Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California
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