ABSTRACT
A man who leaves close to four hundred milhon dollars is a mogul of capital if he is anything. Hearst was that, and more. Seventy-five years after Father George Hearst bought Homestake in 1877, says John Tebbel, it "was still faithfully helping support son in his extreme old age". George Hearst was a big rugged fellow whose appearance, manners, and success must have gone into the popular conception of the western American miner and mine magnate. Coupled with an openhanded generosity, these attributes made George Hearst the American ideal of the western mining magnate. Released from the mellow beauty of Harvard Yard, young Willie Hearst went to New York. In March 1887, Willie Hearst was recalled to California and George Hearst told him to go ahead, if he must, and take charge of the San Francisco Examiner. Chamberlain showed Hearst how Pulitzer had gone beyond James Gordon Bennett in the business of sensational presentation.
