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<p>[QUOTE="Vern, post: 28854, member: 347"]"Cortez D. Thompson, better known in Denver as Cort, was the card-playing, free-wheeling husband of Martha A. Silks, a madam during Denvers lurid red-light-district days. Cort went to Alaska during the gold rush and is said to have accumulated a fortune of $50,000 in gold through crooked card games. When he became involved in a brawl with Jefferson Randolph and Soapy Smith, Cort fled Alaska, leaving his gold buried someplace in or near the town of Chitina."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://dailyoddsandends.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/lost-treasure-in-alaska/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://dailyoddsandends.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/lost-treasure-in-alaska/" rel="nofollow">https://dailyoddsandends.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/lost-treasure-in-alaska/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vern, post: 28854, member: 347"]"Cortez D. Thompson, better known in Denver as Cort, was the card-playing, free-wheeling husband of Martha A. Silks, a madam during Denvers lurid red-light-district days. Cort went to Alaska during the gold rush and is said to have accumulated a fortune of $50,000 in gold through crooked card games. When he became involved in a brawl with Jefferson Randolph and Soapy Smith, Cort fled Alaska, leaving his gold buried someplace in or near the town of Chitina." [url]https://dailyoddsandends.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/lost-treasure-in-alaska/[/url][/QUOTE]
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