Sidebar by Kirt. J. Boyd
Jack Dempsey – May 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
Source List
Dempsey by Jack Dempsey and Barbara Piattelli Dempsey
Harper and Row, Publishers 1977
Kid Blackie, Jack Dempsey’s Colorado Days
By Toby Smith
Wayfinder Press 1987
The Warren Evening Mirror, August 5, 1918
Mansfield News, July 5, 1919
New York Times, January 11, 1931
The Cripple Creek District Museum
Through my research, I found a lot of conflicting information concerning actual dates of fights, names, and details. For example, in my query I spelled George Coplen’s name, Copelin, because two books I had read spelled his name that way. When it turned up Coplen in Kid Blackie, Jack Dempsey’s Colorado days, I checked with the Cripple Creek District Museum and Mt, Pisgah cemetery records to confirm the spelling. I didn’t feel comfortable using exact fight dates, because I couldn’t be sure of the accuracy. Because of all this, I limited my sources to periodicals, the museum, and the two books listed, feeling that they were the most accurate.
