The Curious Life of Nevada's Lavere Redfield: The Silver Dollar King (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781626197046)

LaVere Redfield was a prolific hoarder. When he died in 1974, his estate was estimated at more than $70 million. Executors found 680 bags of silver coins and 407,000 Morgan and Peace silver dollars in his Reno mansion. A local Reno legend, Redfield gambled regularly in Virginia Street casinos. He survived robbery and burglaries of his home, which contained false walls to store millions of silver dollars. Hating banks and paper money, as well as big government, Redfield opted to serve a prison term for income tax evasion rather than pay his debts from his ample fortune. Join author Jack Harpster for this first book-length study of this unconventional man behind the folklore and the myth.

Author: Jack Harpster
ISBN-10: 1626197040
ISBN-13: 9781626197046
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.40d