Centennial

Douglass and Maupin

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R.L. Douglass ready to race while Ernest Maupin, Sr. steadies the bicycle, c. 1908.

Douglass was a well-known Fallon buisnessman who, with Joe Jarvis, another area entrepreneur, subsequently created and then sold a meat company and mercantile company before embarking into banking, water rights management, distilling and brewing.