George Wingfield: Nevada’s Banking Kingmaker and Political Power

George Wingfield, Reno banker and Nevada political leader, early 1900s

Nothing Lasts Forever When George Wingfield arrived in Nevada in the final years of the nineteenth century, the state was still more frontier than settled society. The great silver bonanza of the Comstock Lode had faded into legend. Towns that once blazed with lamps and speculation had sunk into dust and memory. Yet Nevada remained … Read more