The problem with these mining camps for an issue like this was the highly transient nature of the population. Unless this gun just happened to be owned by one of the “pillars of the town”, like a merchant or owner of a larger mining company, many who were residing in Goldfield in 1906 were no longer there by 1910.

Goldfield follows the pattern. It reached the peak of its boom and its peak population of over 20,000 in just the year we’re interested in, 1906, and was back down below 5000 by 1910.

So if we want to catch this guy (I can’t do any better than folks here have already done on the name), documents like maybe old newspapers from 1906/07 would likely be the best bet.