Wadsworth Dispatch in Wadsworth, Nevada

Professor Markham and the iceberg poker expedition

A Bayant note recalls a Wednesday visit by Professor Caleb Markham of New England, in Arizona for ethnology. After a quick poker session where $98 changed hands, the professor theorizes the game’s origins may be from a drift era iceberg rather than Aztec or 1800 explorers. The tale shifts to a saloon incident with old Bill Schemerhorn and a comic clash of rodeo bravado, while the town watches the professor probe epochs and skeletons amid glacier hints and frontier banter.