The Crystal Gazer

Name: The Crystal Gazer
Genre: Western
Released: 1955-06-04
Duration: 25 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Natalie Norwick, Morgan Jones, Britt Wood

Episode aired Jun 4, 1955
TV-PGTV-PG
25min

S3.E17

Eilley Orrum believes she can see the future and gives advice based on the ability. She tells Sandy Bowers where to mine his fortune, marrying him and spending their wealth freely. But she d... Read allEilley Orrum believes she can see the future and gives advice based on the ability. She tells Sandy Bowers where to mine his fortune, marrying him and spending their wealth freely. But she doesn't foresee that the money might run out.Eilley Orrum believes she can see the future and gives advice based on the ability. She tells Sandy Bowers where to mine his fortune, marrying him and spending their wealth freely. But she doesn't foresee that the money might run out.

7.8/10

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Director
- Stuart E. McGowan
Writer
- Ruth Woodman(screenplay) (uncredited)
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Genre
- Western
Certificate
- TV-PG
Parents guide
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Trivia
After third husband Lemuel Sanford "Sandy" Bowers (1833-1868) died, Eilley (1826-1903) opened the Bowers Mansion as a spa, and then she tried to sell it to the state as a psychiatric hospital. The mansion that was built for $300,000 in the 1860s ($8.56 million in 2018) was sold at auction in 1876 for $10,000 ($234,000 in 2018) to Myron C. Lake (the founder of Reno) to settle her debts of $13,622. She died in poverty 27 years later at the age of 77; at the height of the silver boom, she was worth $4 million (nearly $77 million in 2018). Bowers Mansion is currently owned by the National Parks Service, and is open for tours May-September each year.