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By Mike Sunderland
Thoughts from a Grey-Haired Point of View 

A Cure for Depression

 

September 29, 2022

Even in the 1970’s some of the old gold rush style miners lived the life of a hermit and it was a risk to life and limb to explore the mountains in Northern Nevada.

You never knew when you would stumble across one of these characters. The first indication you were trespassing on their claim would be the sound of a bullet ricocheting off a rock at your feet.

Taking a page out of Wild West history, in mid-summer of 1974 one of Winnemucca’s sheriff’s deputies decided to put together a gang and rob the Mayfair Market grocery store. As the major market in the county the Mayfair safe could...



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