Tabloids have established that an early visit to Kit Tut’s tomb was decidedly bad for your health — in fact, it might even kill you. A long list of famous people was presumably laid low for unwisely disturbing the pharaoh’s 3,000-year repose. Maybe it’s time to add William Boyce Thompson’s name to the list. According […]
The Inside Story of the Cumberland-Ely Deal: How William Boyce Thompson Outflanked the Guggenheims
I was recently sitting comfortably in a reading room of the Library of Congress, going through some papers left behind by Hermann Hagedorn, William Boyce Thompson’s biographer. I was minding my own business, trying to speed-read interviews related to the Magnate’s acquisition of a mining venture in Ely, Nevada, dreaming of my next cup of […]