"I've had powerful good luck, and I've got money to throw at the birds." (Bowers, 1861)
Lemuel Sanford Bowers (nickname: "Sandy") (February 24, 1833 – April 21, 1868) was an American teamster of Irish descent,[2] miner and owner of the Crown Point Mine near Gold Hill, Nevada.[3][4] Bowers and his wife were the Nevada Territory's first millionaires.[5] Their home, the Bowers Mansion, was the first of the stately homes built in Nevada with the wealth from the Comstock Lode.[6]
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- ^ Morris, Roy (2010). Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain. Simon and Schuster. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-4165-9866-4.
- ^ Beebe, Lucius Morris; Clegg, Charles (1956). Legends of the Comstock Lode. Stanford University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780804704632.