GRAPEVINE?CANYON, Calif. ? Lauded and wooed by reporters from one side of the United States to the other a century ago, ?Death Valley Scotty? was king of his castle.
Reportedly rich beyond the wildest dreams of folks Walter E. Scott bamboozled with tales of gold waiting to be harvested from his claim ? supposedly staked in the oven-hot desert ? he was instead a silver-tongued scam-artist.
But despite the conman?s unmasking, business tycoon Albert Mussey Johnson backed the likeable rogue.
?Scott has a great appetite for money, and I like to feed it,? Johnson testified at his pal?s 1941 civil trial, which another backer, this one disgruntled, lost. ?He always repaid me ? in laughs.?
Source: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/07/11/king-of-californias-death-valley-played-all-the-angles
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