Chief Geronimo

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• A young 19-year-old Laverne Collier, son of a Pocatello railroad conductor, did in fact fight the future World Champion Jack Dempsey.
• Jump ahead 43 years later, December of 1958, when Dempsey again visited Pocatello and talked about his 1915 bout which was a four-rounder.
• In later years a local promoter revealed that Geronimo was an alias used by 19-year-old Laverne Collier, son of a Pocatello railroad conductor.
• Collier was later to serve in U. S. Army in Europe during the First World War. After the war, he began a career in newspaper management.
• He moved from California to Miami, Florida in the early 1920s and was killed in 1926 when his auto collided with a freight train.