J. Frank Norris, Top of the Hill Casino,
Lew Jenkins, And the Texas Oil Rich.
Top O’ Hill Casino was taking in over a half a million
dollars on weekends In the depth of the Great Depression while
Las Vegas was but a dusty crossroad in Nevada. It was during
the Roaring Twenties that Sinclair Lewis came to Fort Worth,
Texas to study the controversial Baptist minister J. Frank Norris
and his fundamentalist movement and wrote the Nobel Prize winning
book Elmer Gantry in 1930. A film was made in 1960 starring Burt
Lancaster and won five Oscars. Grantland Rice, one of the
greatest sports writers of the golden era of boxing wrote of
Lew Jenkins; “He is a product of Texas cow towns, the plains
and the army and comes on as tough and rugged as any of the brawling
champions of the past.
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