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	Blonger Bros. - Lou's Obituaries
		Blonger owned several valuable farms and ranches near Denver, but disposed of them all except the Bee Hive ranch on the Golden road, which he deeded to his wife before he was sent to the penitentiary to begin serving his term of from seven to ten years.
		Blonger was among those caught in the dragnet as the guiding genius behind the whole band of crooks, who mulcted their victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by means of various fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes.
		Lou D. Blonger, described at the time of his arrest as a man of wealth in Denver, was called the brains of a "million-dollar bunco ring" with headquarters there when he and eighteen others were sentenced in June, 1923, to State prison for swindling by means of operations in stocks and grain.
	www.blongerbros.com /news/Lou_Obits.asp (5627 words)

	Lou "the Fixer" Blonger and the Notorious Blonger Brothers
		By the 1890’s, the Blonger Brothers had become wealthy men from investments in mining claims and profits from their popular Denver saloons, which catered to gamblers and also provided “painted ladies” for their customers.
		Lou's operation was so tight, that no one was able to operate in the city without gaining his permission and “donating” a share of their proceeds.
		By 1920, Lou Blonger had grown so powerful that many said he “owned” the city of Denver and was, by that time, able to fix any arrest with a phone call and was making thousands of illegal dollars a year in his extensive confidence games.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /we-blonger.html (852 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lou Blonger
		Lou "The Fixer" Blonger (May 13, 1849–April 20, 1924), born Louis H. Belonger, was an American Civil War veteran, saloonkeeper, mine operator and well-known gambler, but is most often noted as the organizer of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado.
		Blonger faced legal trouble now and again over the years from a few he had defrauded, but his organization operated largely unimpeded until he was in his early 70s.
		The Blonger brothers were said to have long-standing ties to numerous Denver politicians and law enforcement officials, including the mayor and the chief of police.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Lou_Blonger (516 words)

	AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - Denver, CO.
		Known as "The Fixer," Blonger was born in Canada and was of French-Canadian descent.
		Blonger learned early on that to be successful he had to pay the police for protection.
		Blonger and Duff were each sentenced from 7 to 10 years, the remaining defendants received shorter terms or fines.
	www.americanmafia.com /Cities/Denver.html (1594 words)

	Mafia Cities - Denver, Colorado
		Known as "The Fixer," Blonger was born in Canada and was of French-Canadian descent.
		Blonger learned early on that to be successful he had to pay the police for protection.
		Blonger and Duff were each sentenced from 7 to 10 years, the remaining defendants received shorter terms or fines.
	www.carvelli.com /noFlash/mafia-cities-Denver.html (1588 words)

	Lou Blonger May 13 Civil War Wisconsin veteran Wyatt Earp Colorado Arizona Union Army April 20 References (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lou "The Fixer" Blonger (May 13, 1849–April 20, 1924), born Louis Belonger, was a Civil War veteran, saloonkeeper, detective and well-known gambler, but is most often noted as the organizer of an extensive bunco ring in Denver that operated for over twenty-five years.
		With the departure of Jefferson "Soapy" Smith in 1896, Lou Blonger and his brother Sam consolidated the city's competing gangs of confidence men into a single organization.
		Lou faced legal trouble now and again over the years from a few he had defrauded, but his organization operated largely unimpeded until he was in his early 70s.
	en.powerwissen.com /1PHXDoC6clMfgJWkVIObEw%3D%3D_Lou_Blonger.html (562 words)

	Blonger Bros. - News & Feature Articles
		Sam, Lou and Joe in New Mexico, 1882
		The Earps, Doc Holliday, and The Blonger Bros.
		Soapy Smith and The Blonger Bros. - 1895
	www.blongerbros.com /news (150 words)

	The Denver Post - Denver's Brother Hoods
		They were succeeded by Lou Blonger, one of the most colorful characters in the city's history.
		Blonger was brought down in the early 1920s by crusading District Attorney Philip S. Van Cise as part of an elaborate sting.
		Convicted on numerous charges, Blonger was sentenced to seven years in the state penitentiary at Cañon City, despite his protests that his health and age (he was 73) wouldn't let him serve out his sentence.
	www.denverpost.com /entertainment/ci_4602277 (2027 words)

	Shullsburg, Wisconsin at AllExperts
		About 5.0% of families and 9.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 13.9% of those age 65 or over.
		Shullsburg was the boyhood home of Lou Blonger, the "Bunco King" of Denver, Colorado.
		Blonger lived in Shullsburg from 1853, when he was four, until 1864, when he enlisted in the Union Army as a fifer.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sh/shullsburg,_wisconsin.htm (443 words)

	Blonger Bros. - Home of the Famous Blonger Bros.
		While climbing the family tree we stumbled across the Blonger Brothers, five restless souls who sought, and found, their fortunes in the mines of the Rocky Mountains, associated with some of the most famous men of their time, and left their mark all over the American West.
		Then we discovered how Lou Blonger made his pile — a Million-Dollar Bunco Ring that controlled the streets of Denver for over twenty-five years.
		The Blonger Posse details their exploits on the dusty streets of New Albuquerque.
	www.blongerbros.com (336 words)

	Blonger Bros. vs. Soapy Smith
		The Blonger Bros., Sam and Lou, aren't widely remembered today, but they were well known across the West around the turn of the last century.
		While Smith loved publicity and bluster, the Blongers preferred a low profile, and their friends in high places like the Post, the sheriff's department, the mayor's office, etc. helped keep their long career quiet.
		Lou would go on to exercise near total control over the city's con men for over twenty-five years, until a sensational bust in 1922.
	www.scoundrelsforum.com /index.php?topic=448.0 (504 words)

	Pt. 4 The Big Store of America
		Protection was particularly critical to the confidence gangs that infested the town, and it was doled out by a number of bosses, including the Blongers, Ed Chase and Soapy Smith, who held the upper hand in the early 90s as king of the Denver fixers.
		The newspapers say the rampaging Smith brothers also visited Blonger's place that night, and barely missed a shotgun shell in the back from Lou, who was waiting behind the bar.
		By the time of Lou's arrest in 1922, the gangs were raking in a half million a year from tourists and visiting businessmen in so-called big store cons like the rag.
	www.scoundrelsforum.com /index.php?topic=455.0 (621 words)

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