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Swiftwater Bill Gates (died 1935) was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes and died in Peru in 1935 pursuing a silver strike.In one famous Klondike story he presented Dawson dance hall girl Gussie Lamore her weight in gold.Gates was married briefly to Grace Lamore in 1898; he later married Bera Beebe with whom he fathered two sons Fredrick and Clifford.

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