“From Salt Lake City one travels over the great
plains of Colorado and up the Rocky Mountains, on the top of which is
Leadville, the richest city in the world.
It had also got the reputation of being the roughest, and every man
carries a revolver. I was told that if I
went there they would be sure to shoot me or my travelling manager. I wrote and told them that nothing that they
could do to my travelling manager would intimidate me.”—Oscar Wilde, “The
Ethics of Art in Leadville,” in The Best of the Raconteurs, selected
by Sheridan Morley and Tim Heald (2000)
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