Crossword-Solution: GOLDFIELD 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

There were circumstances, however, which kept away the rowdy and desperado element who usually make for a newly opened goldfield.

MARTHA--Why? BIGELOW--Well, Nevada--the Far West at that time--I should think a child would have grown so accustomed to violent scenes-- MARTHA--[Smiling.] Oh, in the mining camps; but you don't suppose my father lugged me along on his prospecting trips, do you? Why, I never saw any rough scenes until I'd finished with school and went to live with father in Goldfield.

What next? BIGELOW--Next? You get a job as engineer in that Goldfield mine--but you are soon disillusioned by a laborious life where six-shooters are as rare as nuggets.

The writer resumed: 'I've pegged off a twenty men's ground, this--being outside the area of a proclaimed goldfield--our reward as joint discoverers.

The sinking being shallow, what ground there was, was soon worked out, and before long the rush set back again as rapidly as it had come, the goldfield was condemned as a duffer, and left to the few faithful fossickers who have made a living there to this day.