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Rawhide booming. Investors began selling stocks at a frenetic pace, and the town soon had a population of about 5,000, with: three banks, four churches, a school, twelve hotels, twenty-eight restaurants, a theater, and thirty-seven saloons. While the
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Hawthorne, NV. As mentioned above, the Rawhide-Denton Mine has removed any trace of Rawhide, and there is nothing of the town left to see.
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