In the old west of the 1870s, one of the most fantastic ways to make money dishonestly, was conceived by a former printer named Harper Hendrix. The site of his operations was a long abandoned mining town in Nevada, not far from the present location of Boulder City, and about a mile from the Colorado river. Only about half a dozen ramshackle buildings remained in the town, and in one of them, Hendrix was working on a hand press...