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A Character Paradox: Bowdoin’s Gambler to Redeemed Cleric
A Colorado gambler known as Bowdoin undergoes a arc from a hard living to faith and reform. He funds a church organ for Aspen’s First Church, courts its organist, attempts piano lessons, funds church needs, and confronts minister Sampson with a pledge to support the church in exchang e for a path to respectability.
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Denver
Aspen
Little Brown
House of God
Jack
Chicago
House of Prayer
Haydn
Bowdoin
Helen Charles
Jack's
Hopkins
Jack Bowdoin
Johnny
Brown Church
Jingo
Charley
Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Joshua Sampson
Mr. Sampson
Parson