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The Dempsey Story Excerpt from Sunday Light
Jack Dempsey recalls a rugged youth in Manassa Colorado and Logan County coal towns. He discusses family, faith, hardship, and his early boxing beginnings including a brutal Goldfield fight and the push to become world heavyweight champion.
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Logan County
Logan
Pope
Signe
Johnny
Gilfeather
Manassa
Colo
Hyrum
Cecilia Smoot Dempsey
Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
John L. Sullivan
Lstre
William
Harry
Mike John S. Sullivan
Simon & Schuster
Jack Dempsey
Jin
Exchamp