Shelby's Folly: Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown by Jason Kelly

Shelby's Folly: Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown

Jason Kelly

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In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, declining real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were dimming the little town's prospects of becoming the "Tulsa of the West." Then the mayor's son dreamed up a marketing pl...

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