Returning to Tampico, the two vagrants encounter the grizzled prospector Howard in a flophouse. While in California, Thomas worked as a bartender, gold prospector and minstrel show manager. Kirkland Lake is where he made his fortune as a prospector. Kellogg is named after a prospector named Noah Kellogg. Cross rides into town, having failed as a gold prospector. Brumbaugh is attacked by a gold-crazed fellow prospector and slays the man. Bullock suggests that Garret hire Whitney Ellsworth, a trustworthy and experienced prospector. After that year, Harts left Oklahoma to become a gold prospector. He would later become a prospector in Arizona. Keck was very successful as an oil prospector. Lunar Prospector was launched on 7 January 1998. Gone were the days of the "single-blanket, jackass prospector" long associated with the romantic west. Methods used vary with the type of deposit sought and the resources of the prospector. These trains are named the "Prospector", "AvonLink", and "Australind". He shoots the prospector in the back and the prospector falls face down.