Many men and women came west in the 19th century to pan out that dream of getting rich but none can match that of a pretty Irish lady named Nellie Cashman.  A restless adventurer, Nellie ranged the Old West for fifty years prospecting for gold and spreading good cheer wherever she traveled.  She made and lost, or gave away, a number of fortunes during her lifetime. She ran restaurants and boarding houses, never refusing a meal or a room to some hungry, down and out miner who had no money to


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