I was out most of the day today with a loved one in for surgery. Anyway, here is another seasonal post for the Frontierado Holiday, coming up this Friday, August 4th.
JIM LEAVY/ LEVY – This gunslinger’s last name shows up under both spellings at times. He was definitely from Ireland. Some accounts claim he was Jewish, but those sources may have jumped to conclusions if they were going by the Levy spelling.
Jim was born in 1842 and when he was 8 years old his family moved to America, arriving in New York Harbor on board the Huguenot on May 14th, 1850. By 1860 Jim was living in Sacramento, CA as either a miner or bartender.
In early 1868, a Silver Rush began to eastern Nevada and our subject moved there with hopes of striking it rich. Trying his luck here and there, Jim was eventually prospecting at Pioche, NV, one of the most underrated of the deadly boom towns of the old west.
Legend has it that Leavy fell in with fellow Irishman Morgan Courtney and his handful of gunslingers who were hired by the Ely-Raymond Mining Concern to take back their Washington & Creole Mine from hired gunmen who had seized it for the Newland Brothers. Continue reading
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