Dayton Shannon made two promises. One was to protect his little brother and the other was to earn enough money to get to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Both seemed unattainable when his abusive father arbitrarily shipped him off to his uncle in Lexington, Kentucky to learn the horse trade. The horse trade turned out to be sheet writing for his bookmaking operation. He was a quick study and eventually sent enough money home to his brother to go...