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By Robert C. Olson. As the author aptly puts it "in the anals of American history there was probably no greater two-fisted, hard-drinking, high-rolling tycoon of the Rockies" than Spencer (Speck) Penrose. Born into a Philadelphia blue-blood family in 1865, Speck forsook the normal, polished-professional-political route of silver spoon aristocrats, and went to the West to become a multi-millionaire who found fortune his own way amidst the turmoil of the mineral mining boom days of Colorado. Hardcover, 209 pp., 2008