Colorado Experience: The Manassa Mauler (Jack Dempsey)

Before he was the World Heavyweight Champion and a cultural icon of 1920s, William Harrison Dempsey spent his youth as a miner, cowboy, and farmhand in the Rocky Mountain Region. A native of Manassa, Colorado, Dempsey was born to poor Mormon parents who traveled throughout Colorado and Utah looking for work wherever they could find it. Robust and powerful, Dempsey demonstrated a talent for fighting, and, with the guidance of his brother, Bernie, he embarked on a career as a professional boxer, first as “Kid Blackie”, and, later, “Jack” Dempsey. Colorado Experience spotlights the early roots of one of the state’s most renowned native sons, Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler.

Видео Colorado Experience: The Manassa Mauler (Jack Dempsey) канала Rocky Mountain PBS